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II. Effay concernhig Giants. Occafioned hj 
Jome further Kemarks on the large Humane Os 
Fronds, or forehead-bone^ vientkned in the 
Philofophical Tranfadtions oj February, 
\6%\. Number \6%. By Vr. Thomas Moly- 
neux, M, D. Fei/otp of the King WQueens 
CoUedge o/Phyficians in Ireland, and of the 
Royal Society /7^ England* 
AMon^ all the various works of Nature, tfio there 
afe none but what are truly admirable, and well 
defcrve onr-confideration, yet her vaft and largeft pro- 
dudions in each- kind, as they feem mafter ftrokes of 
her art, and the extraordinary efforts of her power, de- 
mand in a more efpecial manner our regard, and ulu- 
ally excite in us a curiofity of making more ftridt and 
particular obfervations on them whene're they come in 
our way : wherefore being in Holland feme years finc^," 
and meeting there with a moft prodigioufly large Hu* 
mane Os Prontk or Forehead- bone ^ they keep in the 
Medicine School at Leyden^ I was defirous to compare 
its proportion with the like Bone in a man. of ordinary 
ftature ^ and it appqar'd fo remarkable for its ftupendi- 
ous fi^^e, that I carefully took the dimenfionsof it, and 
fent them over to my worthy Friend Franck AJlon.ECq^ 
then Secretary to the Rojial Society 3 who thought 'twas 
fo fingular a Rarity in its kind, and to worthy the 
confideration of the Ingenious, that the month follow- 
ing he publifh'd my Letter, imperfed as it was, in the 
Philofophical Tranfa3ions for Fcbrmry 168^, number 
168. 
Gggg Since 
