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fo exceflive a heightb, as there is not any natural ob- 
fervation to fupport, nor any fure authority to counte- 
nance fuch a deduftion^ then there is a great deal of ,, 
r^afon to conclude, or at leaft fufped they are not ge- 
nuine, but fuppofitious aiid falfe. 
But this Bom now before us, though it be fo vaftly 
great, cannot in the leaft be fufpeded to have apper- 
tained to any other creature than a Ma^ ^ for being 
compleat every way, and anfwering in all particulars 
to. the common Forehead-bones of other men, excepting 
in its magnitude, as we fhall clearly (hew when we 
come to defcribe its Figure 5 there cannot be any man- 
ner of doubt, but that 'tis certainly humane, efpecially 
if weconfider that the Os Frontis of a man is of fo pe- 
culiar a make, from the globofe ftiape of his head, 
that there is not to be found a Bone among all the A- 
nimals of the Creation, that bears any refemblance to 
its Figure, if we except that of a M^;/^e;/ 5 but all this 
Genus being, of a much fmaller fize than a Man, gives 
us no umbrage of fcruple 5 and whatever reafon we 
may have to make us doubt in other the like cafes, yet 
here, we have none, this being beyond all controverfy 
a true and genuine part of a large Humane Animal. 
To be capable rightly tounderftand and^forma clear 
conception, both of the agreement in fhape, , and of 
the remarkable difference in fize, between this.great 
Os Frontis^ and the. fame ^one in a man of ordinary 
ftature : and the better to apprehend what dedudions 
may be made from hence, to determine the true heighth . 
of the perfon to whom it formerly belonged, 'twill be 
requifit we have recourfe to the Figures in the annext. 
Tables. . 
Thefe I procured by the affiftance of my Ingenious. 
Friend and Relation Mr Bugh Howard, who, as he paft. 
on his Journey for Italy, in the year 1697. when he 
vifited Leyden to fee the rarities of that place, did me. 
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