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as the Giants in all Probability delighted to dwell and 
command in. I have feen fome of thefe Bones brought by 
a very curious French Merchant from this lafl mentioned 
Place, which I took to have belonged to an Elephant, 
by fome large Cells between the Tables of the Skull, 
which are in the Skull of that Animal. 
Hieronymus Magius * gives an Account of a very 
large Skull, eleven Spans in Circumference, and fome 
other Bones, probably belonging to that Skull, which 
were dqg up near Tunis in Africa by two Spanijh 
Slaves, as they were ploughing in a Field. He was 
informed of this Matter by Melchior Guilandinus , 
who faw the Skull himfelf, when he had the Misfor- 
tune to be taken by the Rovers , and carried into 
Slavery to that Place in the Year 1579. I am the 
more inclined to believe, that this Skull and Bones 
was Part of the Skeleton of an Elephant, becaufe, as 
I lhall (hew hereafter, a like large Skeleton was dug 
up near the fame Place fome Time after, which by 
one of the Teeth fent to Teiresk was made out to 
have been the Skeleton of an Elephant. 
I now come to thofe Bones, Teeth and Tusks, 
(or Horns, as fome call them) which are mentioned 
by Authors to have been dug up in divers Parts of 
the World, and have been made out by them, or do 
otherwife appear by their Defcription and Figures, 
indifputably to belong to the Elephant. 
Johannes Goropius Bee anus j-, notwithftanding he 
lived in an Age, when the Stories of Giants were very 
much credited, and had found their Advocates, even 
* Mifcellan. Lib. i. Cap. ii. pag. 19. 6. f Originum Antwerpiana- 
rum Libro. ii. quern Gigantomachiam appellayit, pag. j 7 s. 
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