suppose to be from the rotting of the body, to 

 which these bones and teeth did, as he supposes ^ 

 once belong. It were to be wished he had given 

 an exact figure of these bones and teeth. 



This account is only worth preserving, as it 

 fixes the time at which these extraordinary 

 remains of antiquity were first discovered in 

 America, previous to their being found in Siberia. 

 The supposition that they were the bones of a 

 giant was scarcely less probable than that they 

 should have belonged to a quadruped of which 

 not the smallest vestige could be traced. — 

 Prepossessed, therefore, with the certainty of 

 their being human bones, a calculation was 

 made of the height of the supposed giant, very 

 probably from a broken piece of thigh bone, and 

 a length of seventeen feet was calculated in 

 proportion to the thickness of that which was 

 subject to their examination ; for take either 

 half of these thigh-bones, and nothing can more 

 resemble that of the human leg, until the whole 

 is seen together, when, from its thickness, it is 

 evidently that of a quadruped, the human thigh 

 being very long and flender. - The seventy-five 

 feet of black earth, which they calculated lo be 

 the length of a man whose thigh-bone was 

 supposed seventeen feet, could have been nothing 



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