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of the Teeth were found entire, which weighed an 
hundred Ounces, and were by the Inhabitants of P) ra - 
pani hung up in one of their Churches, to perpetuate 
the Memory of this Fad. They like wife found Part 
of the Skull capacious enough to hold fome Bufiiels 
of Corn, and one of the Shank-bones, which was 
fo large, that upon comparing it with the Shank-bone 
of an ordinary Man, it was judged, that this Giant, 
whom fome took to be Erick , others Ethellus , others 
one of the Cyclops , and again others the renowned 
‘Polyphemus himfelf, mull have been zoo Cubits high, 
according to which Calculation, he is figured and re- 
prefented by F. Kircher * as by far the largeft of a 
whole Gradation of Giants, whom, after this, lie places 
in the following Order : 
Cubits. 
The Giant of Strabo , whofe Skeleton was 
dug up near Tingis in Mauritania , and 
was found to be — — — 
60 high. 
Pliny's Giant, found in a Mountain in 
Creta. — — — ■■ — 
The Skeleton of Afterius , Son of AnaBles 
The Skeleton of Orejies , dug up by fpecial 
Command of the Oracle 
The Giant, whofe Bones were found under 
a large Oak, not far from the Convent! 
of Reyden in the Canton of Lucern inj 
Swijferland. 
fioUath) as defcribed in Sacred Writs — — 
The Cafe is flili lefs doubtful with Regard to thofe 
Bones, which were found in France in 1456, in the 
* Mtfnd. Subterran. L. viii, Seft. 2, 
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