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as I find them in the feGond Book of that Work he calls 
Origines Antmrpian£^pvmttd ?it Antwerp^ an, 1569. pag. 
207. where he fays, Septem vel fex cuhitorum Homines 
nojlra quoqne atate accidere 5 vidimus enim Mulierem de- 
cem pedes altam ^ Juvenem item rioveni pedibus non mulio 
minor em^ alios quoque n'on it a multo inferiork jlatHr£ ■: 
and a little further, pag. 212. Statura efi Gigantea hoc 
ipfo tempore qnidam Heretanfi (^opidum hoc e^ qninque 
hinc milliarihm fitum ) ad decern prope pedes hngus. 
Plinj the Naturalift in the feventh Book of his Na- 
tural Hiftory, Chapter the fixteenth, fpeaks particular* 
]y by name of feveral men in his own age much of the 
lameheighth, or fomething taller, than thofe menti- 
oned by Becanus : Vrocertjjimum hominem (idiysho) <etas 
Tjofira Divo CI audio Principe Gabbarum nomine ex Arabia 
adve&nm novem pedum & totidem unciarum vidit 5 fuere 
fub Divo Aug(iJlo femi pede addito^ quorum Corpora ejus 
Miracnli gratia in Condhorio Salujianorum ajfervabantur 
Mortorum 5 Pujfoni & SecundHl£ erant nomina», 
Hcre Plin)/ muft certainly underftand by a Foot the 
Pes Romanus ox Capitolinm^ '^md Becanus 2ind Diemer-^ 
hroeck the Pes Rhinlandicus Of Ley den foot, as we da 
thQ Englijh foot r but thefe feveral meaftires vary fa 
little one from t'other, that it is fcarce Worth while ta 
take notice of their difference 5 for the longeft foot of 
thefe exceeds the fliorteft no more than 20 does 15, 
which in taking the heighth of thefe very tall Bodies 
is fo inconfiderable, that it alters the cafe but very» 
little. 
To thefe undoubted Hiftories, we may add the many 
concurring Teftimonies given us by various Travellers 
concerning Gigantick Men, feen in their Voyages in 
rfie more remote parts of the World : for *tis not im- 
probable that where both the Soil and Glimate 
coucur, and are naturally difpofed to produce Plants, 
firuitSv and feveral k^nd of Animals, of a much larger 
