All that the Public can yet learn, is, that Captain _Byron_ and his Men have seen on the Coast of _Patagonia_ Five Hundred Giants on Horseback. Giants? you will cry, what do you call Giants? why, my Friend, not Men of Fifty or an Hundred Feet high, yet still very personable Giants, and much taller than any Individual ever exhibited at _Charing Cross_. Come, what do you think of Nine or Ten Feet high? and what do you think of Five Hundred such? will Mrs. —— cry, “pish, That is no Giant, it is only a well made Man?” I am told, for I am no reader of Travels, that this Gigantic Nation was known to exist as early as the discovery of that Continent: That Sir _John Narborough_ mentions them; and of late Years, _Maupertuis_. The _Spaniards_ assert that they have long been acquainted with their existence——So they you see can keep a Secret too. But the Reasons given why we know so little of the Matter, are, that few Ships ever touch on that Coast, standing more out to Sea, in order to double the _Cape_, and that these Giants are a roving Nation, and seldom come down to the Coast; and then I suppose, only _to bob for Whales_. You will be eager to know a great deal more than I can tell you; but thus much I think is allowed. That Captain _Byron_ being on that Coast, saw a Body of Men at a distance on very small Horses; as they approached, he perceived that the Horses were common-sized Horses, but that the Riders were enormously tall, though I do not hear that their Legs trailed much on the Ground. This was fine Game for a Man sent on Discoveries. The Captain and part of his Crew immediately landed, on which Messieurs the Giants as quickly retreated. Whether this Timidity was owing to the Terror which the _English_ Arms have struck into all Parts of the known, and I conclude, unknown World; whether they took Captain _Byron_ for Mr. _Pitt_; whether they took our Men for _Spaniards_, whose name must be in Horror to all _Americans_; or whether they had any apprehensions of Fire-Arms, I cannot tell. Be that as it may, the more the Captain and his Men advanced, the faster the Giants kept trotting off. Seeing this, the Captain took a bold and sensible Resolution: he ordered his Men to lay down their Arms and remain Stock still, himself alone advancing. I doubt much whether _Homer_ would have cared to venture his _Jupiter_ alone against Five Hundred _Titans_.