AN ACCOUNT OF THE GIANTS +Lately Discovered+. (Price One Shilling.) This Work is entered in the Hall-Book of the +Company+ of +Stationers+, according to Act of Parliament; whoever Prints it, or any Part thereof, will be prosecuted as the Law directs. AN ACCOUNT OF THE GIANTS LATELY DISCOVERED; In a Letter to a Friend in the Country. LONDON: Printed for +F. Noble+, opposite _Gray’s-Inn, Holborn_. MDCCLXVI. An +Account+ of the GIANTS LATELY DISCOVERED. _Dear Will_, Though People in the Country are enough disposed to believe Wonders, yet are they prudently apt to suspend giving Credit to all that are sent from _London_, except of a political Cast. You good Folks still believe in an uninterrupted Generation of Patriots; and though they so seldom come to Years of Maturity, you trust in them as fast as they are produced in St. _Stephen_’s Chapel. For other monstrous Births, you are fonder of them, the farther they come. Ghosts and Witches are entirely of your own Growth. Excepting the famous Ghost of a Sound in _Cock-Lane_, from which the Methodists expected such a rich Harvest, (for what might not a rising Church promise itself from such well imagined Nonsense as the Apparition of a Noise?) I think many, many Years have elapsed, since the Capital could boast of having regenerated a Spirit. Your Sagacity will therefore incline you to doubt the marvellous Account I am going to give you of a new discovered Race of Giants. Perhaps you will take the Relation for some political Allegory, or think it a new vamped Edition of _Swift_’s Brobdignags. My good Friend, it is neither the one nor the other; though I must own, a political Mystery, and a wonderful one too, for it is really kept a Secret.—The very Crew of the Ship who saw Five Hundred of these lofty Personages, did not utter a word of the Matter for a whole Year; and even now, that a general Idea has taken wind, can scarce be brought to give any Particulars to their most intimate Friends.