( 502 ) 
Reign of Charles VII, by the Side of a River in the 
Barony of Crujftole (afterwards ere&ed into a County) 
not far from Valence. Johannes Alarms in Libris 
de Galliarum llluftrationibus , C a lam a its in fuis de 
Bitnrigibus Comment arijs, Fitlgofus in his Annals , 
& Job. CaJJanio of Monftroeuil , in his Treatife of 
Giants *, feverally take Notice of thefe Bones, which 
were fo large, that the whole Height of the Giant, 
to whom it was thought they belonged, and who was 
fuppofed to have been the Giant Briatus , was con- 
jedured to have been of iy Cubits. The Skull alone 
was two Cubits thick, and the Shoulder-bone fix Cu- 
bits broad. Sometime after, other Bones of this Kind 
were found in the fame Barony near the fame Place, 
Part of which Cajfanio faw himfelf, and gives fuch a 
particular Defcription of one of the Teeth, as leaves 
little Room to doubt, but that it was the Grinder, and 
confequently the other Bones, the Bones of an Ele- 
phant. His Words are f, Mira magnitudinis dentem 
multi ibidem con/peximus , longitudine unius fedis^ 
fonder e librarum olio ; multo autem oblongior quam 
craffus vijus eft , radicefque aliquot habere quibus 
gingiva inhare bat. Vifa eft infufer ea fars , qua 
cibus terebatur , aliquantulum concava , latitudine 
digitorum quatuor. He adds farther. That fuch ano- 
ther Tooth was kept at Charmes , a neighbouring 
Caftle, that he meafured the Length of the Place, 
whence thefe Bones were dug, and found it to be 
nine Paces \ that fome Time after more Bones were 
difcovered at the fame Place, and that the Coun- 
try all thereabouts was very mountainous, and fuch, 
"* Pag. *>7> & feq. f Pag. 62. 
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