[4510 ! 
And I am perfwaded by what I have feen my felf 
the like kind, that the large Tooth mentioned by Olms 
Wormins, in his MiUum, and afterwards particularly 
defcribed and figured by Thomas Bartholin in his Centn- 
ria I, Hifioriarnm Anatomicarnm Hijioria 98, which 
they both thought, and would have us believe from its 
refembJance, was a Canine Tooth of a Giant^\W2iS nothing, 
elfe but one of the Teeth of the Cstus Dentatuspx Sperma- 
Ceti-Whaky a. Fifh that is no ftranger either to the Seas 
of Denmark their Country, or of thefe Northern Iflands, 
of which and the Sperma Ceti it affords, I fiave already 
given fome account in Number 227 of thefe 
Tranfa3^ions, , 
Nor is it long fince, that the Bones of the Fore-fin 
of a Porpefs^ or afmall Whale, artificially joyned toge- 
ther, were exposed in, London by way of publick fhevv, 
as the Skeleton of a Giant s hand : For all Fifh of the 
Cetaceous or Whale-ki^d, have this Fin made up of juft 
fo many ranges of Joynts, as naturally anfwer our five 
Fingers, and all together does not a little refemble a 
mans hand 5 whence it pafl currently as fuch with the 
credulous and ignorant,; that either cannot or will not 
examine the truth of things, they find fo great a plea- 
fure in being deceived/.. by what is 9^^^ and 
rare. i\vs\^ vXh^:.^" ; v^v.^z-o.-) - 
But fuch like cheats,and how far; thefe kind of Bones 
are falfe and genuine, may eafily be made out by an 
Anatomift, skilful in th^ Ojleology oi Animals : nay, 
any one may make a probable con jefture at leaft in this 
matter, if he but compute according to the dimenfions 
of fuch Bones, what muft be the true fize or bulk of 
the Man, whofe Body, as is pretended, when intire, 
was compofed of parts and Limbs,analogous or anfwer- 
ing in a due proportion to thefe Remains. For if by 
fuch computation *tis fonnd, the produd does amount 
icfovaft a ftrudure of parts, and the whole arifes to 
fo 
