APPENDIX. 



A. — Page 1. 



" The first letter directed to Dr. Woodward is dated at Boston, in New England, Nov. 17, 1712. 

 In this the writer gives an account of a large work in manuscript, in two volumes, in folio ; but 

 does nor name the author. This, according to the account of it, is a large commentary upon 

 some passages in the Bible, interspersed with large philosophical remarks taken out of natural 

 historians, and the observations of himself and others, more particularly as to matters observed 

 in America, whence he entitles the work, ' Biblia Americana.' This work Dr. Mather recom- 

 mends to the patronage of some generous Maecenas, to promote the publication of. As a 

 specimen of it, he transcribes a passage out of it, being a note on that passage in Gen. chap. vi. 

 verse 4, relating to giants ; and confirms the opinion of there having been, in the antediluvian 

 world, men of very large and prodigious statures, by the bones and teeth of some large animals 

 found lately in Albany, in New England, which for some reasons he judges to be human; parti- 

 cularly a tooth brought from the place where it was found to New York, 1705 ; being a very 

 large grinder, weighing four pounds and three quarters ; with a bone, supposed to be a thigh-bone, 

 seventeen foot long. He also mentions another tooth, broad and fiat 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 Claverack, about thirty miles on this side Albany. He then gives the 

 description of one, which he resembles to the eye-tooth of a man ; he says it has four prongs, 

 or roots, flat and something worn on the top ; it was six inches high lacking one eighth, as it 

 stood upright on its root, and almost thirteen inches in circumference ; it 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 below the surface of the earth, 

 where the ground is of a different color and substance from the other ground, for seventy-five 

 foot long ; which they 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 the writer had given an exact 

 figure of these teeth and bones." — Philosophical Transactions for the year 1714, vol. xxix. p. 62. 



