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lavater’s 
A Swedifli peafant, Caiamis ; a Finlander, Gilly, 
of Tr elite \ and the king of Prujjia's life-guard, 
/neafured more than eight feet. 
Goliath mull have been nine feet four inches in 
height, if we calculate it right from holy fcripture. 
Notwithftanding fuch authentic accounts as have 
been publilhed about the Patagonians, and much 
as they may comparatively overlook other people, 
we cannot fupprefs our doubts refpedling their mid- 
dling height 5 nor ought it to be deemed gigantic in 
every individual ; for if, as in other countries, a 
few of them have exceeded their national ftandard, 
as we may call it, of fix to thirteen feet, others 
might have been feen proportionably lower, or 
about that fmalleft fize, on a general run. 
Other fuppofitions have been formed upon the 
appearance of extraordinary bones dug up; which 
were either the fad remains of brutes, or puffed up 
by difeafe, if they had really formed a part of a hu- 
man flceleton. 
There is, in the Mufeum of Natural Hihory at 
Paris, a broken bone, 2 ft. in. long, which had 
been confidered as having been part of a giant’s 
bodv, until Dauhenton proved it to have belonged 
to another animal. 
The Roman Hiftory mentions a famous giant 
Teutobochus, whofe bones were faid to have been 
difeovered near Langon, in the beginning of lafl 
rcntur\ ; thev were exhibited as fuch in France, 
Flanders, 
