1^8 The Statural Hijlory 
vorer of the ftorics of Giants, yet tells us of one that lived a- 
bout 150 years fince at Burdeaux in ^quitan^ commonly called the 
Giant of Burdeaux^ whom F ranch the firft, King of France^ paC 
fing that way, beheld with admiration, and gave efpecial com- 
mand that he (liould be of his Guard : but he being a Peafant of 
a narrow foul, and not pleafed with a Courtiers life, quitted his 
Halbard^ and got away by Health to the place whence he came : 
Of whom the (aid Caffanio was alTured by an Honorable Ferfon, 
who had feen him v^rc/6(?r of the Guard, that he was of fo great 
a height, that a Man of an ordinary ftature might go upright 
between his legs when he did ftride. And Thuanm ^ treating of 
an Invafion made by the Tartars upon the Folanders^ in the Year 
1575. tells us of a Tartar flain by one Jacohws Niezabiloviu^ z 
Polander^ whofe fore-head was 24 inches broad, and his body 
of fo prodigious a bulk, that as he lay dead on the ground, his 
carcafs reached to the navel of a perfon ftanding by him. 
172. Geropiu6 Becanu6^^ Phyfitian to the Lady Mjrj, fifter to 
the Emperor Charles the Fifth, Queen of Hungary and Regent 
of t\\Q Netherlands^ aifuresus, That there dwelt a perfon within 
five miles of him ten foot high, and that himfelf faw a Woman 
of the fame height. The talleft that T have yet feen in our days, 
was alfo a Womanof a Dutch extradion, (hewn publickly here at 
Oxford^ feven foot and a half high, with all her Limbs propor- 
tionable : when fhe ftretch'd forth her arm, Men ot ordinary fta- 
ture might walk under it ; and her hand, from the carpus or wrift 
where it is joined to the radius of the arm, to the end of the 
middle finger, was full ten inches long. A ftature, 'tis true, 
much fliort of any of the afore-mentioned, and indeed 1 believe 
it will be hard to meet with their fellows in thefc parts of the 
World, where Luxury has crept in, together with Civility : Yet 
if we look abroad amongft the prefent barbarous Nations of both 
Indies^ where they live ftill according to Nature^ and do not 
debauch her with the fenfual Delights of the more civilized 
World, we (hall find (if the Relations either of EngliJIj ov Hol- 
landers be of any credit) that there are now men and women ad- 
equate to them in ftature ; feveral having been feen, efpecially a- 
bout the Straights of M.agellan^ of ten : and one near the River 
of Platehy Tho. Turner^ 12 foothigh. 
* Jac, zyiug, Thuani HIH. Tom. 3. lib. 61. g De Gigantomachia. 
ly^, whence 
