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and confirms the opinion of there having been in 



the antediluvian loorld men of a very large and 



prodigious stature, by the bones and teeth of 



some large animals found lately in Albany in 



New England, which, for some reasons, he 



thinks to be human ; particularly a tooth brought 



from the place lohere it was found to New York 



in 1705, being a very large grinder, zueighing 



four pounds and three quarters; with a bone 



supposed to be a thigh-bone, seventeen feet 



long. He also mentions another tooth, broad 



and flat like a fore-tooth, four fingers broad ; 



the bones crumble to pieces in the air after they 



are dug up ; they were found near a place called 



Cluyerack, about thirty miles on this side Albany^ 



He then gives the description of one which he 



resembles to the eyt-tooth of a man : He says 



it has four prongs or roots, fat and something 



worn on the top ; it was six inches high, wanting 



one-eighth as it stood upright on the root, and 



almost thirteen inches in circunference ; if 



weighed two pounds four ounces Troy weight. 



There was another near a pound heavier, found 



under the bank of Hudson's River, about fifty 



leagues from the sea, a great Way beneath the 



surface of the earth, where the ground is of a 



different colour and substance from the other 



ground, for seventy-five feet long, which they 



