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Flanders, and England. A celebrated furgeon, 
Habicot, fupported that opinion, which was op- 
pofed by Dr. Riolan, and is lince exploded by Daii- 
benton and other eminent men. 
On one fide of the queftion it was afferted, that, 
upon opening the giant’s tomb, a human Ikeleton 
was found, tw*enty-five feet and a half high, ten 
feet broad at the llioulders, and five feet round, with 
a head five feet long, and ten feet in circumference. 
The objeftions to fuch afiertions are obvious to a 
profeffional character. 
A flceleton five feet high, is only thirteen inches 
broad, and feven and a half inches round. Confe- 
quently another of five-and-twenty feet would mea- 
fure only about three feet at the ribs, and five feet 
three inches at the flioulder-blade j where ten feet 
would be the juft proportion to the immenfe height 
of fifty feet, in fuch a living creature as we fliould 
imagine to have exifted. Upon that fcale, five feet 
in compafs would be proportioned to thirty-eight 
feet in height. 
The human Ikull is generally eight inches long, 
and one foot feven or eight inches round. A head 
five feet long, and ten feet round, could have fuited 
only an animal thirty-five feet high. 
The other parts were equally ill-matched to jufti- 
fy fuch a falfe idea as had been too lightly con- 
ceived. 
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