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round 13 inches, lacking one-eighth, And its weight in the scale 

 was 2 pounds, and four ounces, Troy weight. One 28 of the same 

 growth, but not of equal weight was last year presented to my lord 

 Cornbury, and one of the same figure exactly was shewed at Hart- 

 ford, of near a pound weight more than this. 



" Upon examination of the two Dutchmen they tell me the said 

 tooth and bones were taken up under the bank of the Hudson's 

 river, some miles below the city of Albany, about 50 leagues from 



the sea, about foot below the surface of the earth, in a place 



where the freshet does every year rake and waste the bank, and that 

 there is a plain discoloration of the ground, for seventy five foot 

 long at least, different from the earth in colour and substance, 

 where is judged by every body that see it, to be the ruins and dust 

 of the body that bore those teeth and bones. 



" I am perfectly of opinion that the tooth will agree only to a 

 human body, for whom the flood only could prepare a funeral ; and 

 without doubt he waded as long as he could to keep his head above 

 the clouds, but must at length be confounded with all other creatures 

 and the new sediment after the flood gave him the depth we now 

 find. 



" I remember to have read somewhere a tradition of the Jewish 

 rabbins, that the issues of those unequal matches between heaven 

 and earth at the beginning were such whose heads reached the 

 clouds, who are, therefore called Nephelim, and their issue were 

 Geborim, who shrunk away to the Raphaim, who were then found 

 not to be invincible, but fell before less men, the sons of the east 

 in several places besides Canaan. I am not perfectly satisfied of 

 what rank or classis this fellow was, but I am sure not of the last, 

 for Goliah was not half so many feet as this was ells long. 



" The distance from the sea takes away all pretension of its being 

 a whale or animal of the sea, as well as the figure of the tooth, nor 

 can it be any remains of the elephant, the shape of the tooth and 

 admeasurement of the body in the ground will not allow that. 



" There is nothing left but to repair to those antique doctors for 

 his origin, and to allow Dr. Burnet and Dr. Whiston to bury him 

 at the deluge, and, if he were what he shows, he will be seen again 

 at or after the conflagration further to be examined. 



" I am, Sir, your humble servant, 



"J. DUDLEY." 



28 This refers to the Claverack specimen. 



