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IV. An Extract of feveral Letters from Cotton Mather, D.D. 
to John Woodward, M. D. and Richard Waller, Efq; 
S. R. Seer. 
T HE firft Letter directed to Dr Woodward, is dated at 
Be ft on in New England, Nov. 17. nn. In this the 
Writer gives an Account of a large Work in Manufcript, in 
two Volumes in Folio, but does not name the Author. This, 
according to the account of it, is a large Commentary upon 
fome Paffages in the Bible, interfpers'd with large Philolo- 
phical Remarks, taken out of Natural Hiftorians, and the 
Obfervations of himfelf and others, more particularly as t© 
Matters obferv’d in America , whence he entitles the Work, 
BiblU Americana. This Work Dr. Mather recommends to the 
Patronage of fome generous Meceenas, to promote the Publi- 
cation of. As a Specimen of it, he tranferibes a Paflage 
out of it, being a Note on that Paflage in Gen Chap. 6. v. 4. 
relating to Giants ; and confirms the Opinion of there having 
been, in the Antediluvian World, Men of very large and pro- 
digious Statures, by the Bones and Teeth of fome large 
Animals, found lately in Albany in Neve England, which, lor 
fome Reafons, he judges to be Human ; particularly a Tooth 
brought from the Place where it was found to New Tork , 
1705’. being a very large Grinder, weighing 4 pounds and 
three quarters, with a Bone, fuppos’d to be a Thigh-bone, 
17 Foot long. He alfo mentions another Tooth, broad and 
flat like a fore-Tooth, four Fingers broad the Bones crum- 
ble to pieces in the Air after they are dug up ; they were 
found near a place call’d Cluverack, about 30 Miles on this 
fide Albany . He then gives the Defcription of one, which 
he refembles to the Eye-Tooth of a Man ; he fays it has 
four Prongs, or Roots, flat, and foniething worn on the 
top- 
