which with them paſs for hiſtorical Truths, but according to my Notion of Things, are no better than ſo many Fables. But as I could not obtain the real Medals, I had the Privilege of taking a Draught of ſome which I looked upon as the moſt curious of them.
The firſt of theſe were of Gold, the next Silver, and all the others Braſs. But there were many, which I believe of greater Antiquity, but ſo much impaired, that it was impoſſible for the niceſt Eye to take the Impreſſion.
Having mentioned theſe Curioſities, I muſt not omit one, which, if true, was a much greater, and afforded more matter of Speculation to the Age it was found in, than any I have named. It was a Man perfect in all his Limbs and Features, and, what is yet more wonderful, in his Habit; tho' by the Make of it, he muſt have lain under-ground upwards of an Hundred Years. This extraordinary Diſcovery, they ſay, happened no longer ago than in the Reign of King Charles the Firſt: there are Perſons now living, who aſſured me their Fathers ſaw it; and from hence they infer
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