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phifteftaculum, fo very tall, that he was feeri above all the" Trd- 

 phees \ which were the fpoils of the Enemies, ufually carryed 

 alofc upon the tops of fpears. Ndevius Poll'io, fays Pliny z , Was" 

 fo great a Giant (having no account of his dimenfions) that it 

 was taken for a wonderful ftrange thing, that when a gteat prefs 

 of people came running upon him, he had like to have beer! 

 killed. 



169. But to come clofer to the bufinefs, and mora determi- 

 nate ftatures, the fame Pliny a tells of two others living in the 

 time of Auguslus, nick-named Pufio and Secundilla, whofe bo- 

 dies were preferved for a wonder in the Salufiian Gardens, that 

 were ten foot high : and that in his time there was one Gabbara^ 

 brought out of Arabia, in the days of Prince Claudius the Em- 

 peror, exaftly of the height of Goliath, viz,, nine foot nine 

 inches high b ; which being a cize very proportionable to out 

 bone found at Cornwell, I am rather inclined to believe, that Clau- 

 dius brought this Gabbara into Britan with him, who poffibly 

 might dye and lay his bones here, than that ever they belonged 

 to any Elephant ; except we (hall rather fay, that here alfo Cori~ 

 n<us, cofin to Brute, might kill one of Gogmagog's race, and that 

 from him the place doth take his name, as well as the County of 

 Cornwall. 



1 70. Moreover, that there were men heretofore of fuch vaft 

 ftatures, we have the teftimony of Jofephus c , in his Antiquities 

 of the Jews, where he tells us of one Eleazar, a Jew born, fent 

 amongft the Prefents to Tiberius, when Darius the Son of Arta- 

 banusK'mg of Perfia> after a Peace made, went as a Hoftagc to 

 Rome, that was full feven Cubits in height. And there is a Sce- 

 leton d now to be feen in the Town-hall at Lucern, found under 

 an old Oak in the County of Willifau, near a Village called Rey- 

 den, within the jurifdi&ion of that City, that gives further con- 

 firmation, it having all, or moil: of the bones wherein a Man 

 differs from other Animals , and being above feventeen foot 

 high. 



171. And if we confult the latter ages: of the World, we (hall 

 ftill find that there were always fome few peifons vaftly exceed- 

 ing the ordinary ftature of Men ; Job. Cajfanio e , though no fa- 



7 Fieri Hi ft. Rom. lib. 3. cap. 3. z Nat:Uift.lib.j. cap.i6- * Idem loco citato. * idem loco citato. 

 { Lib-iZ.cap.6. KircheriMuTtd.fultterrMli.'&Jett.z.cap..^ c lo. Caflanio MonAftr-deGigantitv*,cap.6. 



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