but of ſuch a monstrous Length and Bigneſs, that they would infinitely have overfitted the Feet of the Giants ſet up in Guild-Hall in London: and this, among other things, ſerves to prove the vaſt Stature of the Antediluvians, for they will have it that this Iſland was inhabited before the Flood, as I have already remarked.
But becauſe when I ſet myſelf down to write the Hiſtory and Deſcription of this Iſland, I reſolved to give a much fuller one than has yet been publiſhed, I muſt not omit any Particular, tho' never ſo inſignificant in itſelf, which bears any weight with them. I ſhall therefore preſent my Reader with two or three Inſtances more of their Credulity, to the end he may be as perfectly acquainted with a Native of the Iſle of Man, as if he had lived among them as long as I have done.
In the Days of Enchantment, ſay they, a certain great Magician had by his Art raiſed for himſelf the moſt magnificent Palace that ever Eye beheld; but none who, either out of Curioſity, or a
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