I will now, my Friend, drop the political Part of this Discussion, and inform you what effect this Phænomenon has had on another Set of Men. It has started an obvious and very perplexing Question, _viz._ whether these Giants are _Aborigines_; if they are not, from which of the Sons of _Noah_ are they descended, and in that case how we shall account for this extraordinary increase of Stature? The modern Philosophers are peremptory that these Giants are _Aborigines_, that is, that their Country has been inhabited by Giants from the Creation of the World. The Scriptures, say those Gentlemen, mention Giants, but never posterior to the Flood; whence we ought to believe that they perished in the General Deluge. Neither, add they, are we told that any Son of _Noah_ was of Stature supereminent to his Brethren. Yet we will suppose, say they, that some of their Defendants might have Shot up to an Extraordinary height, without Notice being taken of it in Sacred Writ. Nay, they allow that this increase of Stature might not have appeared till after the Date of Holy Writ. Yet is it credible, say they, that a race of Giants should have been formed, and remain unknown to all Ages, all Nations, all History? Did these Monsters pass unobserved from the most Eastern Part of the Continent (the supposed Communication by which _America_ was peopled) to the Northern Parts of the other World, and migrate down that whole Continent to the most Southern Point of it, without leaving any Trace, even by Tradition, in the memory of Mankind? Or are we to believe, that Tribes of Giants sailed from _Africa_ to _America_? What Vessels wafted them? Was Navigation so perfected in the infant Ages of the World, that Fleets enormously larger than any now existing were constructed for the transportation of a Race of _Polyphemes_? Or to come to the Third Point, is it the Climate that has ripened them, as _Jamaica_ swells Oranges to Shadocks, to this stupendous Volume? But North and South of them are Men of the ordinary size, nor has the same Latitudes produced any thing similar. Natural Philosophers cannot account for it, therefore Divines certainly can; and when this People shall be better known, I do not doubt but the Mystery will be cleared up; for as these Giants have indubitably remained unmixed longer than any other People, we shall probably discover stronger Traces of their _Jewish_ Origin. Their Cult is in all likelihood less corrupted from that of the Sons of _Noah_, than is to be found elsewhere: their Language possibly the Genuine _Hebrew_, not _Phœnician_; and if I might hazard a Conjecture, these Giants are probably the Descendants of the Ten Tribes so long lost, and so Fruitlessly sought by the Learned; and having deviated less from the true Religion of their Forefathers, may have been restored so, or preserved in their primitive Stature and Vigour. I offer this Opinion with much Modesty, though I think it more