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Elephants, though it could not be pofitively afferted, 
that they did. S. Auftin *, difcourfing of the Ex- 
iftence and great Feats of the Giants before the De- 
luge, mentions in Proof of what he advances. That 
he himfelf, with feveral others, faw at Utica, upon 
the Sea-fhore, the Grinder of a Man fo large, that if 
it had been cut into Teeth of an ordinary Size, at 
leaft an Hundred might have been made of it. Hiero- 
nymus Magius f, although himfelf very much pre- 
judiced in Favour of the Exiftence of Giants, yet 
fufpe&s this Tooth, mentioned by S. Auftin, to have 
been rather the Tooth of an Elephant, or elfe fome 
huge Creature of the Sea, than that of a Man. But 
Ludovicus Vives , in his Commentaries upon that Paf- 
fage of S. Auftin , takes Notice, that in the Church 
of S. Chriftofther at Hifftella, he was ftiewn a Tooth 
bigger than his Fift, which they pretended was one of 
the Teeth of that huge Saint, no Doubt, upon as good 
Ground, as that very large Shoulder-bone, which 
Hieronymus Magius fays f, was fhewn in a Church 
at Venice , was the Shoulder-bone of S. Qhriftofther . 
The pretended Skeleton of a Giant, which was 
found near fDraftani, a Caftle in Sicily , upon dig* 
ging the Foundation of a Houfe, and is defcribed by 
Job. Boccatius || , is again not unlikely to have been 
the Skeleton of a large Elephant. For although the. 
greateft Part of the Bones, through the Length of 
Time, and the Force of the fubterraneal Steams, were 
fo rotten, that after their being expofed to the Air,. 
. they fell to Pieces alraoft upon touching, yet three 
* De Civit. Dei. Lib. xv. C. ix. citatus per Caflanionem 6c Lam- 
becium. | Mifcellaneorum Lib. i. C. ii. pag. iy, $ L. C. pag, io, 6* 
jj Genealogia degli Dei. L. iv, ad fin. 
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