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Since that time, cafually cafting my eye on that ac- 
count, which was writ in the hafte of a Traveller, and 
finding it deficient in feveral particulars, 1 thought it 
worth my while, now I had more leifure, to fupplyin 
part thofe defefts, and render it more clear and fatis- 
faetoTf i foT cbafidering how few ailthentick and faith- 
fid jdations have been yet ptibli(h'd to the world of 
real Gigantick Boms, fuch asare truly what they pre^ 
tend to be ^ an Inftance fo fair and' genuine as this, put 
in a clear light, and freed from all mfpicion and ca- 
vil, cannot but be acceptable to the Learned and Iriqui- 
fitive pf tjhis age. /; v . , . . ^ 
For if by fuch an example it appears there have been 
truly Gigantick Bodies, twice or more furpaffing the 
ufual fize of Men, we not only determine a point that 
p qt fome ufe for th^ Information of thQ^ Philofopher 
and '^^im^U^A 'hj Oi^wii:^ how . far the. power ^crf Na- 
ture may; re^icfeiarj4 does exert it felf i^i the 
Produdions of Humane Bodies beyond her ufual 
bounds 5 but at the fame time likewife do fervice in 
ijel^ion to the Divhe^ by confirming the trutji of fe- 
veral Pafifagqs in. ^fa/j Wrifi where there is, .mention 
m^de of QUntSi, and mf a .of extraordinary ftrength, as 
as well as bulk of body. 
I am not ignorant that!^already feveral Autliors, both 
Antient and Modern, haye taken pains to regifter ac- 
counts not of Gigri/^^^V^ Bems only, but of entire Bo- 
dies of vaflily ' Gigmtiek Men^, found buried under 
ground, or in the hoUow caverns'of Mountains : but 
thefe relations are commonly fo extravagant in them- 
fel ves, taken up by h^arfay only, and the reports fo ill 
attefted, that they almoft carry their own coafutacion, 
at leaft they will hardly gain credit. vyitjj.t^l^fe t^^tajf. 
wary, and of a caudous belief. ' - 
Whoever has a mind to perufe fuch furprizing fto- 
rics, may confult Thoma Fazelli Decades de Rebm Si- 
