Fenfyhania, Germantown, loi 



aftbnlfhifig lize. The Tibia rs faid to have 

 been fourteen feet long, and the os femoris 

 to have meafored as much. The teeth are 

 Mkewife faid to have been of a fize propor- 

 tioned to the reft. Bat more bones of this 

 kind have not yet been found. Perfons 

 ikilled in anatomy, v^^ho have feen thefe 

 bones, have declared that they were human 

 boneis. One of the teeth has been fent to 

 Hahiburghy to a perfon who collected natu- 

 ral cilriofities. Among the favages, in the 

 neighbourhood of the place where the bones 

 ^ere found, there is an account handed 

 down through many generations from fa- 

 thers to children, that in this neighbour- 

 hood, on the banks of a river, there lived 

 a Very tall and ftrong man, in ancient 

 times, Who carried the people over the ri-^ 

 Ver on his back, and waded in the water, 

 though it was Very deep. Every body to 

 whom he did this fervice gaVe him fome 

 maize, fome ikins of animals, or the like. 

 In fine he got his livelyhood by this means, 

 and was as it v^^ere the ferryman of thofe 

 who wanted to pafs the river. 



Tnfe foil here confifts for the greateft 



part of fknd, which is more Or lefs mixed 



iVith clay. Both the fand and the clay, are 



of the colour of pale bricks. To judge by 



G 3 appear-- 



