being all open, diſcovered innumerable Lamps burning in every Room. Here he deſigned alſo to knock, but had the Curioſity to ſtep on a little Bank which commanded a low Parlour; on looking in, he beheld a vaſt Table in the Middle of the Room of Black Marble, and on it, extended at full Length, a Man, or rather Monſter; for by his Account, he could not be less than Fourteen Feet long, and Ten or Eleven round the Body. This prodigious Fabrick lay as if ſleeping, with his Head on a Book, and a Sword by him, of a Size anſwerable to the Hand which 'tis ſuppoſed made Uſe of it. This Sight was more terrifying to the Traveller, than all the dark and dreary Manſions he had paſſed through in his Arrival to it: he reſolved therefore not to attempt Entrance into a Place inhabited by Perſons of that unequal Stature, and made the beſt of his Way back to the other Houſe, where the ſame Servant re-conducted, and informed him, that if he had knocked at the ſecond Door, he would have ſeen Company enough, but never could have return'd. On which he deſired to know what Place it was, and by whom poſſeſſed; but the other
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