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_ Ad Cimbros ftragemque volabant 



Qui nunquam .attigerant majora Cadavera corvi. 



Juv. Sat. 8. 

 Agricola 



Grandiaque effoffis mirabitur ofia fepulchris. 



VIRG. Geo. i. v. 493. 



The Teutonic king, Theutobochiis, fubdued by Marius, the Roman 

 general, was fo tall, that he out-topped the trophies, the Spolia of 

 the field, carried on the points of f pears, elevated, infigne fpec- 

 taculum (e). There have been inftances, well attefled, of human 

 remains being found of the extraordinary length of feventeen 

 feet. A friend of mine, on whofe veracity I can rely, law a 

 woman at dmfterdatn, in Holland, who to her moulders was ten 

 feet. What difcredits the account of the Cbr^n'^-fkeleton mod 

 in the Britannia, is the opinion of the learned and curious Dr. 

 Todd, prebendary of Carlijle, who, by the defire of Dr. Hallsy, took 

 particular pains to inform him concerning it in a letter, bearing 

 date T.-jt\\ February, 1710-11, He allures us, that it might as well 

 have been calculated at 200 or 300 yards, as feven ; the ribs, 

 lhank-bones, and teeth, lying at a great diftance from each 

 other, and many of them no longer than the bones of ordinary 

 oxen ; the latter fo numerous, that a bufhel or them might be 

 gathered in an hour. He gives it as his belief", that they are the 

 remains of oxen, or other large quadrupeds, facrificed to Hercu- 

 les, laid after the Roman manner under the pavements and foun- 

 dations of their fortrefTes (f), 



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(i) Barbararum rex ipfe Theutobocus infigne fpe<5tacu1um fuit : qu vir o-'>ceritatis exi- 

 mijc fuper trophaa ipfa eminebat. Flor. Hift. 1.3. c. 3. 



(f) Ph. Tr. No. 330. 



See Sir Hans Sloanis curious account of the Denies exerti, the tusks, teeth, ? of 



elephants, found under-ground, in his pofleffion ; and his remarks ;-;. i.n.1; ,:j i; has.: read of 



