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ACCOUNT OF GIANTS. 49
At Totic, in Bohemia, in 758, was found a skeleton,
the head of which could scarce be encompassed by the
arras of two men together, and whose legs, which they
still keep in the castle of the city, were twenty-six feet
long,
o
The skull of the giant found in Macedonia, September
1691, held two hundred and ten pounds of corn.
Tire celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who treated the mat-
ter very learnedly, does not doubt these facts, but thinks
the bones were those of elephants, whales, or other ani-
mals. Elephants bones may be shewn for those of
giants, but this can never impose on Connoisseurs.
Whales, which, by their immense bulk, are more pro-
per to be substituted for the largest giants, have neither
arms nor legs, and the head of th,at animal hath not the
least resemblance with that of a man; if it be true, there-
fore, that a great number of the gigantic bones which we
have mentioned have been seen by anatomists, and have
by them been reputed real human bones, the existence of
giants is proved. T. W.
Rarities from Egypt.
An Account of Pieces of Antient Sculpture taken by the
British forces under Lieutenant General Lord Hutch-
inson in Egypt, from the French army in Alexandria,
and sent to England under the charge of Colonel Tur-
ner, September 1802.
A
1. glx Egyptian Sarcophagus of a stone, called by
the French Breche I erte, from the Mosque of St. Atha-
nasius, in Alexandria.
2. Ditto, ditto of black granite, from Cairo.
3. Ditto, ditto of basaltes, from Menouf.
4. The
At Totic, in Bohemia, in 758, was found a skeleton,
the head of which could scarce be encompassed by the
arras of two men together, and whose legs, which they
still keep in the castle of the city, were twenty-six feet
long,
o
The skull of the giant found in Macedonia, September
1691, held two hundred and ten pounds of corn.
Tire celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who treated the mat-
ter very learnedly, does not doubt these facts, but thinks
the bones were those of elephants, whales, or other ani-
mals. Elephants bones may be shewn for those of
giants, but this can never impose on Connoisseurs.
Whales, which, by their immense bulk, are more pro-
per to be substituted for the largest giants, have neither
arms nor legs, and the head of th,at animal hath not the
least resemblance with that of a man; if it be true, there-
fore, that a great number of the gigantic bones which we
have mentioned have been seen by anatomists, and have
by them been reputed real human bones, the existence of
giants is proved. T. W.
Rarities from Egypt.
An Account of Pieces of Antient Sculpture taken by the
British forces under Lieutenant General Lord Hutch-
inson in Egypt, from the French army in Alexandria,
and sent to England under the charge of Colonel Tur-
ner, September 1802.
A
1. glx Egyptian Sarcophagus of a stone, called by
the French Breche I erte, from the Mosque of St. Atha-
nasius, in Alexandria.
2. Ditto, ditto of black granite, from Cairo.
3. Ditto, ditto of basaltes, from Menouf.
4. The