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together by an intermediate ftrong and pretty thick 
Cartilage, probably to facilitate the Motion, and par- 
ticularly the Flexion of thefe Animals in the Sea. 
(Fig. 2, 3.) But to return from this fhort Digrefiion. 
There are many Skeletons, that were from Time to 
Time found under Ground, and are mentioned by the 
Authors, who fpeak of them, as Skeletons of Giants, 
and undeniable Monuments of their Exiftence, which, 
as I have already obferved, I fhould rather take to be 
the Skeletons of Elephants, Whales, or fome other 
huge Land or Sea-animal. Of this Kind feem to be 
the pretended Skeletons of Giants of 12, 20, and 30 
Cubits in Height mentioned by Thiloftratus * : The 
Skeleton of fix and forty Cubits in Height, which 
according to Tliny f was found in the Cavity of a 
Mountain in Cretan upon the overthrowing of that 
Mountain by an Earthquake : The Skeleton fixty Cu- 
bits high, which Strabo ^ fays, was found near Tin* 
gis (now Tangier') in Mauritania , and was fuppofed 
to have been the Skeleton of Anteus : The Skeleton 
of T alias , as pretended, found at Rome in the Year 
if 00, which was higher than the Walls of that 
City : And likewife that, which Simon Majolus fays 
was found in England in the Year 1171 : Longd 
ante Fulgoji faculum (are his Words ||) annis plus 
trecentis , anno fcilicet 1171. in Anglia , illuvione 
flumints , retetta funt humati olim Hominis ojfa 
adhuc or dine compojita : Longitudo totius Corf oris 
invent a eft longa ad pedes quinquaginta. 
There are others, the Description whereof con- 
cludes more clearly for their having once belonged to 
* In fuis Hcroicis. *{• Hift. Naf. Lib. vii. C. xvf. £ Lib. xvi«L 
il Dierum Canicularium Colloq. u, fag. 36. 
X x x 2 Elephants, 
