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he believed or not I know not : but contradift it he doth 
not^I am fure ^ neither he, nor his learned companion, 
whom he doth name there. Juft fuch another Tooth of 
thebigfiefs^ he faith, of an ordinary fi ft, was feen by A^?/?^, 
(a very creditable Author) in iht Indies^ digged out of the 
ground, in one of-their houfes there, with many other 
Bones ^ which put together reprelented a Man, -of a for- 
midable, or as he fpeaketh, deformed bignefs 5 ox^grcutrufs :■ 
as he judged of it. And fo muft we have judged of thefe 
Teeth, and of the Body to v/hich they belonged ^ had not. 
other Bones been found with them, which-could not be 
Mans Bones. Some that have feen them, by the Teeth, 
and forae other circumftances, are bt opinion, that they 
are the Bones of an Hipppotamus^ or Equus Flumalk:^ that 
is, a River-horfe 5 for a Sea-horfe^ SiS Commonly underftood 
and exhibited, is a fiftitious thing. Yet Plinji makes Hippo- 
p^tamum (^wari^ terr£, amni commimem) to belong to 
Land-Siud Rivers. But what are the differences and pro- 
perties ot each kind, I leave to others to enquire. The 
Earth or Mould about them> and in which they all lay,, 
being like a Sea-earth, or Fuliing-earth, not a ftone in it,, 
unlefryou dig three foot deeper, and then it rifes a per- 
fcft gravel. 
So have you the ftory, an account, if you pleafe, of 
what was found, where, when, and upon what occafion.v 
For more publick fatisfaftion, and to facilitate the difco- 
very 5 at leaf!:, to help fuch who are minded to employ 
their skill in gueffing and judging of the Creature, whofe 
remains thefe are, what it was for kind 5 we have by and. 
with the help of an able Limner, adventured on a Scheme,, 
or Figure, of feveral of theTeeth and Bones, with their 
refpeftive dimenfions, of breadth, length, and thicknefs* 
No man, we conceive, not willing to be cenfured of 
rafhnefs, will be very forward to divine, much lefs to de- 
fine or determine, what the Creature was 5 and doubtlefs 
dubious enough it is, whether of the twain, the Sea or 
the 
