very near four Foot in Length from the Ancle to the Knee: nothing but ocular Demonſtration could have convinced me of the Truth of it, but the Natives ſeemed little to regard it, having, as they ſaid, frequently dug up Bones of the ſame Size.
They told me, that but a few Months before my Arrival, there was found, under Kirk-Carbra Church-Yard, a human Head of that monſtrous Circumference, that a Buſhel would hardly cover it; and that nothing was more common, when they were digging, than to throw up Ribs and Hands conformable to the Leg I had ſeen.
As it is a received Opinion, that the Antediluvians infinitely exceeded the Stature of Morals ſince the Flood, I can reconcile theſe Prodigies no otherwiſe to Reaſon, than by judging them to be the Remains of thoſe who lived in the firſt Ages of the World; and that by a Virtue, peculiar to this Earth, have been preſerved thus long unperiſhed; as they ſeem to make evident in the Example before recited, of the Man whoſe very Fleſh and
