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and twelve foot high 5 v/hich equals^ if not fiirpafics 
the (kture of the talleft Giant mentioned in Holy 
Writ.- 
For, tho Giants are frequently fpoken of in the Scri- 
pture, yet I do not find the exaft meafure particularly 
fet down of any one of them except Goliah of Gath 5, 
v/hofe heighth is exprefsly faid to be, the iftof Sumnet 
chap, the 17th, verfe the 4th, but fix cubits and a 
fpan 5. and taking the cubit in the moft vulgar and 
ufual acceptation, for a foot and a half, his ftature 
will not amount to above nine foot nine incheSi In- 
deed we may reafonably conclude, that Og the King; 
ot Bafan muft have confiderably exceeded Goliah in 
heiglith, if we make an eftimate of his ftature by the 
dimenfions that are given of his Bedfted, vv^hich is faid^ 
HeuUronomy chap, the jd verfe the i ith^ to have been 
kept 33 a Memorial of him at 'Rahbath of the children 
oi Ammon^ and to have been nine cubits in length y, 
but then we cannot imagine but that his Bed muft ot. 
neceffity have been much longer than his Body 5 and- 
the leaft allowance we can make for the overplus^ is^ 
the fpace of nine inches above his Head, and as much- 
below his Feet r. and if we make this dedudion, 'twill 
follow he was not above twelve foot high much of 
the fame ftandard with this our Giant, whofe Forehead 
Bone is ftill kept in the Medicine School at Leyden, 
Whether or no there have been bodies oi men ftiiU 
of a much larger fize than thofel have here raention-dj 
Idare not pofitively determine : but this I may fay^ 
that as yet I have not met with any Authority of that 
weight or proof, fo ftrong as fully to coavince me, 
there really have been fuch in the World 3 and till 
fome fuch evidence be produced, we may look, upon 
all. the ftories of thofe extravagantly Gigantick men, 
to be. little better than the Fables, of the Poets of old> 
onthe.Whims^and-Komances of fome Modern Credu- 
lously 
