reasonable than any _Hypothesis_ I have yet heard on the Subject. Whatever their Religion shall appear to be, it will be matter of great Curiosity. We scarce know of any People, except the _Hottentots_, or the _Heroes_, who lived in the Days of _Fingal_, among whom no Traces of any Religious Notions or Worship have been discovered. If they are not _Jews_, but Idolaters, the Statues of their Divinities, their sacrificing Instruments, or whatever are the Trinkets of their Devotion, will be great Rarities, and worthy of a place in any Museum. Their Poetry will be another Object of Inquiry, and if their Minds are at all in proportion to their Bodies, must abound in the most lofty Images, in the true Sublime. Oh! If we could come at an Heroic Poem penned by a Giant! We should see other Images than our puny Writers of Romance have conceived; and a little different from the Cold Tale of a late notable Author, who did not know better what to do with his Giant than to make him grow till he shook his own Castle about his own Ears. In short, my good Friend, here is ample Room for Speculation: but I hope we shall go calmly and systematically to Work: that we shall not exterminate these poor Monsters till we are fully acquainted with their History, Laws, Opinions, Police, _&c._ that we shall not convert them to Christianity, only to cut their Throats afterwards; that Nobody will beg a Million of Acres of Giant-Land, till we have determined what to do with the present Occupiers: and that we shall not throw away Fifteen or Twenty Thousand Men in conquering their Country, as we did at the _Havannah_, only to restore it to the _Spaniards_: _July 1, 1766._ Your’s, _S. T._ Transcriber’s Notes: • Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). • Text enclosed by pluses is in small caps (+small caps+). • Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. • Antiquated spelling is unchanged.