Fdrt of 2 Letters jrom Mr* ThcmmUd:yntu¥i torn 
eeming ai ProdigkuS' 08 Froiitis in tie Medicine 
IKerewitli fend yoxi Account of a pfodigioas large 
(jsprontw wbich I'my fdf havefeen, and meafiired 
i^ecording to the EngUih In<:h 'tis; referved among Ife- 
verall otter bones, and- kektons^, that belong to tli%' 
MediGine SGhooI, hoxQ-OiX Leydem And I take it tO' be 
the more obfervable^ by reafon, that altho* L have fee n 
feverall bones> of very large fize, that were faid to have 
beeniof Giarutsj^yet I ne:ver was thotoughly fatisfied, they- 
really were fo ; imagining thern only to have belonged 
to^ fome other larger Creatme, then a Man, whofe bones 
for tlve m>oft: part, excepting thofe of the headr, do not- 
much differ from thofeof other Animals.. But this being 
an entire ^?J -f^rz?a/:/jr, Gompleat every way, and differing: 
in no- Fefpecfts^ from that of a Mans, but in its-largenefs-il 
and ffnce there's no Creature,; efpecially of the larger i©rt 
that has this bone at all refembling ours there's not th6^ 
leaitQaeftion to be made,, but this fbrmeriy belonged! 
tO' a Ma:n„ andthatof a nsofte3d:ra^a^ga?n:tlarge fii€*i/ Its* 
dinieiifions were as follow ; from^ its jundture with tlte 
Nafa I boaeSi to the place where the Swmrm Sagittaluxs^r-' 
ininated the Convex A^ay, 'twas 9 Inches- iW. tr an fverfly^ 
from fide ta fide,, ftill mea^furing the Convex way t'wasv 
£2; inches yI ; i:n thicfenefe abourliajf am Incfe I hxwtt 
meafured this fame bone iotlbveraffl: ocdinary SkuH^y ax:* 
cording to; alii thefe Ilimenfibns^, and findttot otiewith; 
another, they fcarce anfwser i'tim half pToportio^m;: for 
where it: was* g;., Imho^-^ cheyare but 4 Inches an:d ai 
liiaii^ aiud where m 1^2. ladk^^ & t&^y are no t 2&mit:6^^ 
