1-^6 The ^N^atural Hifiory 
i66. Belide, how was ic poffible that Claudiu^^ who came 
hither,and was returned again to Rome within fix months, fliould 
find fo much time, as to come up fo far in the Country as Glo- 
cejier^ much lefs to celebrate fiach a Marriage, and build that City^ 
fince the fame Piow exprefly fays, that of thofe fix months time, 
he was here in Britan but fixteen days, wr, gxjtcu'J^gJt^t jjgvc^i op 
B/jgrTaWa We^s Itto/t)^, are his own words and thofe fixteen days 
in all probability, werefpent in ordering his Army, and joyning 
them with the Forces of Plautm that lay then at the mouth of 
Thames XQ2i6.y to receive him, and in taking C amulodonum^ which 
the fame Author aiferts he did that Expeditions and fo immediatly 
returned. 
167. But what is inHar omnium in this difficult point,there hap- 
pily came to Oxford Mobile I was writing of this, a living Elephant 
tobeftiewn publickly at the Ad:, /4;z.i676. with whofe hones ^ind 
tcethl compared ours ; and found thofe of the Elephant noM only 
of a different fl:iape,but alfo incomparably bigger than oz/r5-,though 
the Beafl: were very young and not half grown. If then they 
are neither the bones of Horfes^ Oxen^ nor Elephants-, as I am 
fi:rongly perfwaded they are not, upon comparifon, and from 
their like found in C/6«rc/?f 5- : It remains, that (notwithdanding 
their extravagant magnitude) they muft have been the bones of 
Men or Women : Nor doth any thing hinder but they may have 
been fo, provided it be clearly made out that there have been Men 
and Women of proportionable ftature in all ages of the World, 
down even to our own days. 
P6 8. The Sons of Jnak^ no queftion, were very great men, 
and Goliath for certain was nine foot nine inches high We read 
alfo of the Sonso^ the 77/<7«5, and of high Giants\ and of Gi- 
ants famous from the begining, that were of great ftature and ex- 
pert in War And (to omit the Fables of the Giants of Mount 
Ericc near Drepanum in Sicily, 200 cubits high, of Tanger in Mau- 
ritania 60 cubits'", and of the Giant found ftanding in a Rock, 
cleft by an Earth-quake in the Ifie of Candy, 46 cubits, fuppofed 
to be Or/on^ or Otu^ % and feveral others mentioned by Phlegon 
Amongft the Romans., Theutohochws King of the Teutones or Ger- 
mans^ vanquiQi'd by Mariws, is reported by Floru^ to be infigne 
^ Idem loco citato, s i Sam. c. 17. v- 4. ' Judith 16V-7. " Baruch 3. ^Vid .Athan.Kircheri 
Mundum fuhterr. lib. 8/e <f7. 2 . ca^. 4.. x Nat. HiH. lih. j.cap.\6 * Vhkgon Trallianus de rebus mi- 
rMihus.) cajp- II, 12; ly, i8, 15). 
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