1^6 The Natural Hi/lory 



1(3(3. Befide, how was it poflible that Claudius, who came 

 hithcr,and was returned again to Rome within fix months, ftiould 

 findfo much time, as to come up fo far in the Country as G/o- 

 cejier, much lefs to celebrate fuch a Marriage, and build that City, 

 fince the fame Dion exprefly fays, that of thofe fix months time, 

 he was here in Brit an but fixteen days, <*y S> V} Uxaifew ^W c* t? 

 Bperfavia, wes" i-jrolvot, are his own words r , and thofe fixteen days 

 in all probability, werefpent in ordering his Army, and joyning 

 them with the Force* of Plautiu* that lay then at the mouth of 

 Thames ready to receive him, and in taking of C amulodonum, which 

 the fame Author aflerts he did that Expedition, and {"o immediatly 

 returned. 



167. But what is inffar omnium in this difficult point,there hap- 

 pily came to Oxford while I was writing of this, a living Elephant 

 tobefhewn publickly at the Aft, An.i6j6. with whofe bones and 

 tcethl compared ours ; and found thofe of the Elephant not only 

 of a different fhape,but alfo incomparably bigger than c#rs,though 

 the Beaft were very young and not half grown. If then they 

 are neither the bones of Horfes, Oxen, nor Elephants, as I am 

 ftrongly perfwaded they are not, upon comparifon, and from 

 their like found in Churches : It remains, that (notwithftanding 

 their extravagant magnitude) they muft have been the bones of 

 Men or Women : Nor doth any thing hinder but they may have 

 been fo, provided it be clearly made out that there have been Men 

 and Women of proportionable ftature in all ages of the World, 

 down even to our own days. 



P68. The Sons of Anak, no queftion, were very great men, 

 and Goliath for certain was nine foot nine inches high s . We read 

 alfo of the Sons of the Titans, and of high Giants \ and of Gi- 

 ants famous from the begining, that were of great ftature and ex- 

 pert in War ". And (to omit the Fables of the Giants of Mount 

 Erice near Drepanum in Sicily, 200 cubits high, otTanger in Mau- 

 ritania 60 cubits w , and of the Giant found (landing in a Rock, 

 cleft by an Earth-quake in the Iile of Candy, 46 cubits, fuppofed 

 to be Or ion, or 0tU6 x , and feveral others mentioned by Phlegon *.) 

 Amongft the Romans, Theutobochws King of the Teutones or Ger- 

 mans, vanquifh'd by Marim, is reported-by Floru* to be in figne 



* Idem loco citato. i Sam. c. 17. v. 4- ' Judith 16.V.7. Baruch 3. v.26. ""Vtd.Atban.Kirckeri 

 Mmdumfiibterr.Ub.%f e a.i.caf.it. x Plin.Nat. Hift. Itb-J.cap.i6- * Phlegon Tralliamu dt rebus mi- 

 rabiltbus, cap. 1 1, 12, 17, 18, 19. 



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