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I. Of Foffile Teeth and Bones of Elephants. Tart 
the Second. By Sir Hans Sloane, Bart . 
I Proceed now to the Second Part of this Difcourfe, 
wherein I propofe to offer forae Remarks on divers 
Accounts of Bones and Teeth found under Ground, 
which I met with in feverai antient and modern Au- 
thors, and which will give me an Opportunity of ex- 
amining into the Skeletons, and Parts of Skeletons, 
which are (hewn up and down as undeniable Monu- 
ments of the Exiftence of Giants. 
And hrft, as many of thofe Bones and Teeth, which 
are kept and (hewn about for Bones and Teeth of Gi- 
ants, have been found, upon a more accurate Infpefti- 
on, to be only the Bones and Teeth of Elephants 
or Whales, it may from thence very probably be in- 
ferred, that others alfo, which for want of a fuftici- 
ent Defcription cannot be accurately enough accounted 
for, muft have belonged either to thefe, or elfe fome 
other large Animal. Thus the Fore-tin of a Whale, 
ftripp’d of its Webb and Skin, was not long ago pub- 
iickly (hewn for the Bones of -a Giant’s Hand ^ and 
I have in my own PolTeflion (N° 10x7) the Vertebra 
of the Loin of a large Whale, which was brought me 
from Oxfordjbire , where 1 was ahured it was found un- 
der Ground, and afterwards made Ufe of for a Stool to 
fit on (Fig. 1.). Now if a Computation had been made 
from the Proportion of this Vertebra to that of the other 
Parts of the Skeleton, and all had been fuppofed to 
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