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chIIs^ and tfie fwo ]Qimts Athamfiuf Kircher in his 
Mnndus Suhterraneus^ and Gafpar Shottus in his Fhjficft 
Cunofa 5 where hell find large Colleftions made of 
them, and fome of tiie liiftories recited very particu- 
larly, and at length. \^ ii^4U3Aviu> 
Butpaffing by thefe fi^t of accounts^ as uncertain,, 
if not very improbable, let us enquire whether we may 
with better affurance rely on the information relating 
to this argument, drawn from the feveral Reliques and 
Parts, as is {aid of Gigantick Bodies ftill in being, ; ~and 
referved in the Cabinets of many diligent GolleSoirs of 
Natural Curiofities : arid tho I confefs there is hardly a 
confiderable colledion of this kind, or a printed de- 
icription of a Mufmrn extant, where fome part or o- 
ther of a Giant is not to be met with 5 yet I am hi- 
therto much of the fame opinion, as to moft of thefe 
Gigantick Remains, that the Hiftorian Smtonius Trm^ 
^jhUIhs was of before me near fixteen hundred years 
ago 5 when (giving an account in the life q( AugufiHi 
C^far^ that he rather pleafed himfelf in adorning his 
Houfe v/ith thefe kind of natural Rarities and pieces 
of Antiquity, than either with curious Images or Pi- 
ftures) he fays, JEdes Juas non tarn Statuarum Tabula.^ 
rumqm piBarum Ornatu^ quam Kebus Vetufiate ac Raritate 
notabilibusy excoluk ^ qualia funt Caprms immanium 
Bellmrum Ferartmqy Membra pr£grandUy qute dicuntuv 
Gigantum ojfd* J 
And certainly, a^ in hfe days, fo in ours, moft of the 
pretended Giants Rei^ains, fuch I mean as are truly 
Bone, (for fome are only x\2imx2il Petrifications^ and 
L<?pi<^exy;/^^e;^mV,- accidentally fo figured as to refem* 
ble this or that part of a main J were Bones belonging 
to fome of the MggeO! Quadrupeds, as Elephants, or 
fome ot the largeft fort of Fithes of the Whale-kindy 
called by FUny in his Natural Hiftory, as theji are here 
by Smtonim BdlnSi and Beiim Mat^imi : . > : 
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