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English. I desire these bones may be sent to the tooth, if 

 you think fit. When I go up to Albany next, I intend to 

 go to the place myself, to see if I can discover any thing 

 more concerning the monstrous creature, for so I think 

 I may call it. 



Mr Abeel's letter runs thus: 



According to your Excellency's order, I sent to Klav- 

 erak to make a further discovery about the bones of 

 that creature, where the great tooth of it was found. 

 They have dug on the top of the bank where the tooth 

 was roll'd down from, and they found, fifteen feet under- 

 ground, the bones of a corpse that was thirty feet long, 

 but was almost all decayed; so soon as they handled them 

 they broke in pieces; they took up some of the firm pieces, 

 and sent them to me, and I have ordered them to be 

 delivered to your Excellency. 



Dr Mather also addressed under date of Boston, Nov. 

 17, 1712, a communication to Dr Woodward on the same 

 subject, and this was published in the Philosophical 

 Transactions of the Royal Society in 1714 [29 :62] ; and 

 he also, as does the publication just quoted, refers to two 

 distinct localities, one, " Claverack, about 30 miles on this 

 side of Albany, New England," the other, evidently that 

 mentioned by Lord Cornbury, " as found 20 miles south 

 of Albany on the bank of the river," thus perhaps in the 

 town of New Baltimore. 



Dr Mather inclines to the opinion of there having been, 

 in the antediluvian world, giants, or men of very large 

 and prodigious stature, by the bones and teeth of some 

 large animals . . . which he judges to be human; 

 particularly a tooth which was a very large grinder, 

 weighing 4 pounds and 3 quarters, with a bone, supposed 

 to be a thigh bone, 17 feet long. 



Albany county 

 1835? Coeymans 



Found on the farm of Mr Shear 4 or 5 miles west of 

 the Hudson. Mather. Geol. First Dist. 1842. p. kk 

 1866 Oohoes 



The conditions under which this skeleton was found 

 are unique. The greater part of it lay buried in the 



