der, and as bigge it Mas as a good round hoglhead 
or barrel that would take and containe 15 Ampho- 
res: and his beards (for fo Trebius tearmed his 
clawes and long-ftringed feet) carried fuch a thick- 
nefs and bulke with them, that hardly a man could 
fathom one of them about with both his armes, fuch 
knockers they were, knobbed and knotted like clubs, 
and withall 30 foot long. The concavities within 
them, and hollow veflels like great bafons, would 
hold four or five gallons apeece: and his teeth were 
anfwerable in proportion to the bignes of his bodic. 
The reft was faved for a wonder to be feen, and 
waighed 700 pound weight.” 
It may be added that the vague and uncertain 
deferiptions of the northern animal called the Kra- 
ken or Korven, may perhaps owe their origin to ex¬ 
aggerated accounts of fome uncommonly large fpe- 
cimens of this animal feen in the northern feas. 
