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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75432 ***
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+
+                                   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.
+
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+
+
+                                   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.
+
+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_.
+
+Captain _Byron_’s _Titans_ had more of the _Scavoir vivre_, and seeing
+him advance alone, stopped. He came up with them, and addressed them
+in all the Languages he knew, and that they did not. They replied in
+the Giant-Tongue, which I am told a very reverend Critic, upon the
+Strength of one Syllable which the Captain remembered, affirms is
+plainly _Phœnician_. The Captain not being Master of that exceedingly
+useful and obsolete Language, had the Misfortune of not comprehending a
+Word they said. Had he been a deep Scholar, he would undoubtedly have
+had recourse to Hieroglyphics, which the Learned tell us was the first
+Way of conveying Instruction: But I must beg leave to observe that it
+was very lucky the Captain had not so much Erudition. I do not know
+whether he can draw or not, but most probably if he can, he had not his
+Implements with him. At most perhaps a Black-Lead Pencil, or a Pen and
+Ink, and the Cover of a Letter. He could not with such Tools have asked
+many Questions; and as the Giants are probably not better Painters
+than the _Egyptians_, he would have understood their Answers as little
+as the Learned do the Figures on Obelisks. Thus he would have lost
+his Time, and got no Information; or what is worse to every Man but a
+Critic, have made a thousand absurd Guesses. The Captain having a great
+Deal more Sense, and the Savages some, they naturally fell into that
+_Succedaneum_ to Language, Signs. Yet I do not hear that either Side
+gained much Information.
+
+The first Thing, or rather first Sign, he said to them in this Dilemma,
+was, _sit down_, which he explained by sitting down on the Ground
+himself. The poor good Giants understood him, dismounted, and sat down
+too. It is said, but far be it from me to affirm it, that when the
+Captain (who I am told is upwards of Six Feet) rose again, the nearest
+Giant to him, tho’ sitting, was taller than he.
+
+An Hour or two was spent in fruitlesly endeavouring to understand one
+another: All I hear the Captain comprehended, was, that the Giants
+invited him very civily to go with them into the Woods, where, I
+suppose, _Gigantopolis_ stands, and their King resides, who, no doubt,
+is at least two Feet taller than the tallest of his Grenadiers. The
+Captain declined the Offer, at which these polite Savages expressed
+much Concern, but never once, as any still more polite People would
+have done, attempted to force him.
+
+When he took his leave they remained motionless, and continued so, as
+he observed by his Glasses, till the Ship was out of their Sight.
+
+Very few other Particulars are come to my Knowledge, except that
+they were clothed in Skins of Beasts, and had their Eyes painted of
+different Colours; that they had no Weapons, but Spears pointed with
+Fish-Bones, that they devour Fish raw, and that they showed great
+Repugnance to taste any Liquids offered to them by the Captain; and
+that though they were too polite absolutely to refuse his Toast, they
+spit the Liquor out of their Mouths again; whether from Apprehension
+of Intoxication or Poison, is not certain: However it looks as if they
+had some Notion of such _European_ Arts. What is more remarkable; the
+Weather being very severe at that Season, the whole Colossal Troop
+seemed as sensible of the Cold, and shivered like us little delicate
+Mortals of Six Feet high. They had a few Giantesses with them, but as
+the Captain did not survey them with the small End of his Spying-Glass,
+I do not hear that he was much struck with their Charms.
+
+This, my dear Friend, is all the Satisfaction I can give you. However I
+am proud to be the first who has communicated this important Discovery
+to _Europe_.
+
+The Speculations it has already occasioned, and will occasion, are
+infinite. The Wolf of the _Gevaudan_, that Terror of the _French_
+Monarchy, is already forgotten. Naturalists, Politicians, Divines,
+and Writers of Romance, have a new Field opened to them. The Scale of
+Being ascends; we mount from the Pigmies of _Lapland_ to the Giants of
+_Patagonia_.
+
+You will ask, but I cannot answer you, Whether the Scale of the Country
+is in proportion to such Inhabitants? Whether their Oaks are half as
+lofty again as the _British_; and such is your Zeal for _England_,
+you will already figure a Fleet built of their Timber. How large is
+the Grain of their Corn? of what Size their Sheep, Cows, and Poultry?
+Do not go and compute by _Gulliver_’s Measures, and tell me that a
+populous Nation of such Dimensions would devour the Products of such a
+Country as Great _Tartary_ in half a Year. Giants there are; but what
+proportionable Food they have, except Elephants and Leviathans, is more
+than I can tell. They probably do not live upon Bantam-Chickens.
+
+As you are still more of a Politician than a Naturalist, you will be
+impatient to know if Captain _Byron_ took Possession of the Country for
+the Crown of _England_, and to have his Majesty’s Stile run, +George+
+the Third, by the Grace of +God+, King of _Great-Britain, France,
+Ireland, and the Giants_! You will ask why some of their Women were not
+brought away to mend our Breed, which all good Patriots assert has been
+dwindling for some Hundreds of Years; and whether there is any Gold or
+Diamonds in the Country? Mr. _Whitfield_ wants to know the same Thing,
+and it is said intends a Visit for the Conversion of these poor blinded
+Savages.
+
+As soon as they are properly civilized, that is, enslaved, due care
+will undoubtedly be taken to specify in their Charter that these Giants
+shall be subject to the Parliament of _Great-Britain_, and shall not
+wear a Sheep’s Skin that is not legally Stamped. A Riot of Giants would
+be very unpleasant to an Infant Colony. But Experience, I hope, will
+teach us, that the invaluable Liberties of _Englishmen_ are not to be
+wantonly scattered all over the Globe. Let us enjoy them ourselves, but
+they are too sacred to be communicated. If Giants once get an Idea of
+Freedom, they will soon be our Masters instead of our Slaves. But what
+Pretensions can they have to Freedom? They are as distinct from the
+common Species as Blacks, and by being larger, may be more useful, I
+would advise our prudent Merchants to employ them in the Sugar Trade;
+they are capable of more Labour; but even then they must be worse
+treated, if possible, than our Black Slaves are; they must be lamed
+and maimed, and have their Spirits well broken, or they may become
+dangerous. This too will give a little respite to _Africa_, where we
+have half exhausted the Human, I mean, the Black Breed, by that wise
+maxim of our Planters, that if a Slave lives Four Years, he has earned
+his Purchase-Money, consequently you may afford to work him to Death in
+that time.
+
+The Mother Country is not only the First, but ought to be the sole
+Object of our political Considerations. If we once begin to extend the
+Idea of the Love of our Country, it will embrace the Universe, and
+consequently annihilate all Notion of our Country. The Romans, so
+much the Object of modern Admiration, were with difficulty persuaded
+to admit even the rest of _Italy_ to be their Countrymen. The true
+Patriots never regarded any thing without the Walls of _Rome_, except
+their own _Villas_, as their Country. Every thing was done for immortal
+_Rome_, and it was immortal _Rome_ that did every thing. Conquered
+Nations, which to them answered to discovered Nations with us, for they
+conquered as fast as they discovered, were always treated accordingly;
+and it is remarkable that two Men equally famous for their Eloquence
+have been the only Two that ever had the weakness to think that
+conquered Countries were intituled to all the Blessings of the Mother
+Country. _Cicero_ treated _Sicily_ and _Cilicia_ as tenderly as the
+District of _Arpinum_, and I doubt it was the folly of that Example
+that misled his too exact Imitator on a late occasion. However, the
+Giants must be impressed with other Ideas: Bless us, if like that Pigmy
+old _Oliver_, they should come to think the Speaker’s Mace a Bawble!
+
+What have we to do with _America_, but to conquer, enslave, and make
+it tend to the Advantage of our Commerce? shall the noblest Rivers in
+the World roll for Savages? shall Mines teem with Gold for the Natives
+of the Soil? and shall the World produce any Thing but for _England_,
+_France_, and _Spain_? It is enough that the Overflowings of Riches in
+those three Countries are every Ten Years wasted in _Germany_.
+
+Still, my political Friend, I am not for occupying _Patagonia_, as we
+did _Virginia_, _Carolina_, &c. such might be the Politics of Queen
+_Elizabeth_’s Days. But modern Improvements are wiser. If the Giants
+in question are Masters of a rich and flourishing Empire, I think they
+ought to be put under their Majesties, a _West-Indian_ Company; the
+Directors of which may retail out a small Portion of their Imperial
+Revenues to the Proprietors, under the Name of a Dividend. This is an
+excellent Scheme of Government totally unknown to the Ancients. I can
+but think how poor _Livy_ or _Tacitus_ would have been hampered in
+giving an Account of such an _imperium in imperio_. _Cassimirus Alius
+Caunus_, (for they latinized every proper Name, instead of delivering
+it, as uncouthly pronounced by their Soldiers and Sailors) would
+have sounded well enough: But Dividends, Discounts, _India_ Bonds,
+_&c._ were not made for the Majesty of History. But I am wandering
+from my Subject; though, while I am talking of the Stocks and Funds, I
+could chalk out a very pretty New South-Sea Scheme, _à propos_ to the
+_Patagonians_. It would not ruin above Half the Nation, and would make
+the Fortunes of such industrious Gentlemen, as during the Want of a War
+in _Germany_ cannot turn Commissaries.
+
+Command is the Object of every Man’s Ambition; but by the impolitic
+Assent of Ages and Nations to Hereditary Monarchy, you must be begotten
+on a Queen, or are for ever excluded from wearing a Diadem; except in
+a very few Instances; as in _Poland_, where the Throne is elective;
+in _Corsica_, where they will not acknowledge Hereditary Right in the
+Republic of _Genoa_; in _Russia_, where a Soldier’s Trull succeeded
+her Husband the _Czar_, and where there are other Ways of succeeding a
+Husband; in _Peru_ where they are tired of exchanging their Gold for
+Tyrants; and in _Paraguay_, where the Outcasts of the Earth, and the
+Inventors of the Oath of Obedience, have thrown off all Submission to
+their Prince, and having mounted the Throne, will probably renounce the
+Oath of Chastity too. But it is to _England_ that Persons of the lowest
+Birth are indebted for the Invention and Facility of weilding at least
+Part of a Scepter. Buy but an _India_ Bond and you have a Property in
+the Kingdom of _Bengal_. Rise to be a Director, and the _Mogul_ has not
+more Power appointing and displacing Nabobs. _Indian_ Sovereigns may
+now be born in _Threadneedle-Street_.
+
+What the Government means by pocketing a whole Nation of Giants, is
+not to be conceived. It ought again to draw down the Vengeance of
+their Antagonists on the present Ministers. I am sure they have done
+nothing worse. Who knows but at this Instant they may be preparing to
+pour in Forty or Fifty thousand Giants upon us? Their Love of Liberty,
+their Tenderness of the Constitution, their Lenity, Mildness and
+Disinterestedness, their Attention to the Merchants, in short, all
+their Virtues may be affected, and only calculated to lull us asleep,
+until the fatal Blow is struck. I own my Apprehensions are gloomy; yet,
+thank +God+, we have a pretty tall Opposition, who will not suffer us
+to be enslaved by any Thing higher than themselves.
+
+In the mean Time, till we know something of the Matter, it is to be
+hoped, that all speculative Authors, who are so kind as to govern and
+reform the World through the Channel of the News Papers, will turn
+their Thoughts to Plans for settling this new acquired Country. I call
+it new acquired, because whoever finds a Country, though Nobody has
+lost it, is from that Instant intitled to take a Possession of it for
+himself, or his Sovereign. _Europe_ has no other Title to _America_,
+except Force and Murder, which are rather the executive Parts of
+Government than a Right. Though _Spain_ pretends a Knowledge of our
+Giants, she has forfeited all Pretensions to their Allegiance, by
+concealing the Discovery; as is plain from the Decision of the _Canon_
+Law, _Tit. de novis regionibus non abscondendis_.
+
+The first Thought that will occur to every good Christian, is, that
+this Race of Giants ought to be exterminated, and their Country
+colonized; but I have already mentioned the great Utility that may
+be drawn from them in the Light of Slaves. I have also said, that
+a moderate Importation might be tolerated for the Sake of mending
+our Breed; but I would by no Means come into a Project I have heard
+dropped, and in which Propagation would not be concerned, I mean the
+Scheme of bringing over a Number of Giants for second Husbands to
+Dowagers. _Ireland_ is already kept in a State of Humiliation. We
+check their Trade, and do not allow them to avail themselves of the
+best situated Harbours in the World. Matrimony is their only Branch of
+Commerce unrestricted, and it would be a most crying Injustice to clog
+that too.
+
+In truth, we are not sufficiently acquainted with these Goliaths to
+decide peremptorily on their Properties. No Account of them has been
+yet transmitted to the Royal Society: But it would be exceedingly
+adviseable, that a Jury of Matrons should be sent in the next
+embarkation to make a report; and old Women for old Women, I would
+trust to the Analysis of the Matrons in preference to that of the
+Philosophers.
+
+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
+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.
+
+
+
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+      <span class="gesperrt4 xxxlarge">ACCOUNT</span><br>
+      <span class="gesperrt2" style="font-size: 80%;">OF THE</span><br>
+      <span class="gesperrt6 xxxxlarge">GIANTS</span><br>
+      <span class="smcap">Lately Discovered</span>.
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+      <span class="gesperrt2" style="font-size: 80%;">OF THE</span><br>
+      <span class="gesperrt6 xxxxlarge">GIANTS</span><br>
+      LATELY DISCOVERED;
+    </h1>
+    <div class="mb5 large">In a Letter to a Friend in the Country.</div>
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+    <div class="mt2 mb5">MDCCLXVI.</div>
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+  <hr>
+  <hr>
+  <div class="chapter">
+    <span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">1</span>
+    <h2 class="nobreak lh2" id="An_Account_of_the_GIANTS_LATELY_DISCOVERED">An <span class="smcap">Account</span> of the<br>
+      <span class="gesperrt6 xxxxlarge">GIANTS</span><br>
+      LATELY DISCOVERED.</h2>
+  </div>
+
+  <p><em>Dear Will</em>,</p>
+
+  <p class="drop-cap">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 <em>London</em>, except of a political Cast. You good Folks
+    still believe in an uninterrupted Generation of Patriots; and though
+    they so seldom come to Years <span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">2</span>of Maturity, you trust in them as fast as
+    they are produced in St. <em>Stephen</em>'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 <em>Cock-Lane</em>, 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.</p>
+
+  <p>Perhaps you will take the Relation for some political Allegory, or
+    think it a <span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">3</span>new vamped Edition of <em>Swift</em>'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.</p>
+
+  <p>All that the Public can yet learn, is, that Captain <em>Byron</em> and
+    his Men have seen on the Coast of <em>Patagonia</em> 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 <span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">4</span>Individual ever exhibited
+    at <em>Charing Cross</em>. 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?"</p>
+
+  <p>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 <em>John Narborough</em> mentions them; and of late Years,
+    <em>Maupertuis</em>. The <em>Spaniards</em> 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 <em>Cape</em>, and that these Giants are a roving
+    Nation, and seldom come <span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">5</span>down to the Coast; and then I suppose, only
+    <em>to bob for Whales</em>.</p>
+
+  <p>You will be eager to know a great deal more than I can tell you; but
+    thus much I think is allowed. That Captain <em>Byron</em> 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 <em>English</em> Arms have struck
+    into all Parts of the known, and I conclude, unknown World; whether
+    <span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">6</span>they took Captain <em>Byron</em> for Mr. <em>Pitt</em>; whether they took
+    our Men for <em>Spaniards</em>, whose name must be in Horror to all
+    <em>Americans</em>; 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 <em>Homer</em> would have cared to venture his
+    <em>Jupiter</em> alone against Five Hundred <em>Titans</em>.</p>
+
+  <p>Captain <em>Byron</em>'s <em>Titans</em> had more of the <em>Scavoir
+      vivre</em>, and seeing him advance alone, stopped. He came up with
+    them, and addressed them in all the Languages he knew, and that they
+    did not. They <span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">7</span>replied in the Giant-Tongue, which I am told a very
+    reverend Critic, upon the Strength of one Syllable which the Captain
+    remembered, affirms is plainly <em>Phœnician</em>. The Captain not being
+    Master of that exceedingly useful and obsolete Language, had the
+    Misfortune of not comprehending a Word they said. Had he been a deep
+    Scholar, he would undoubtedly have had recourse to Hieroglyphics, which
+    the Learned tell us was the first Way of conveying Instruction: But I
+    must beg leave to observe that it was very lucky the Captain had not
+    so much Erudition. I do not know whether he can draw or not, but most
+    probably if he can, he had not his Implements with him. At most perhaps
+    a Black-Lead Pencil, or a Pen and Ink, and the Cover of a Letter. He
+    could not with such Tools have asked many Questions; and <span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">8</span>as the Giants
+    are probably not better Painters than the <em>Egyptians</em>, he would
+    have understood their Answers as little as the Learned do the Figures
+    on Obelisks. Thus he would have lost his Time, and got no Information;
+    or what is worse to every Man but a Critic, have made a thousand absurd
+    Guesses. The Captain having a great Deal more Sense, and the Savages
+    some, they naturally fell into that <em>Succedaneum</em> to Language,
+    Signs. Yet I do not hear that either Side gained much Information.</p>
+
+  <p>The first Thing, or rather first Sign, he said to them in this Dilemma,
+    was, <em>sit down</em>, which he explained by sitting down on the Ground
+    himself. The poor good Giants understood him, dismounted, and sat down
+    too. It is said, but far be it from me to affirm it, that when the
+    Captain <span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">9</span>(who I am told is upwards of Six Feet) rose again, the nearest
+    Giant to him, tho' sitting, was taller than he.</p>
+
+  <p>An Hour or two was spent in fruitlesly endeavouring to understand one
+    another: All I hear the Captain comprehended, was, that the Giants
+    invited him very civily to go with them into the Woods, where, I
+    suppose, <em>Gigantopolis</em> stands, and their King resides, who, no
+    doubt, is at least two Feet taller than the tallest of his Grenadiers.
+    The Captain declined the Offer, at which these polite Savages expressed
+    much Concern, but never once, as any still more polite People would
+    have done, attempted to force him.</p>
+
+  <p>When he took his leave they remained motionless, and continued so, as
+    he observed <span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">10</span>by his Glasses, till the Ship was out of their Sight.</p>
+
+  <p>Very few other Particulars are come to my Knowledge, except that
+    they were clothed in Skins of Beasts, and had their Eyes painted of
+    different Colours; that they had no Weapons, but Spears pointed with
+    Fish-Bones, that they devour Fish raw, and that they showed great
+    Repugnance to taste any Liquids offered to them by the Captain; and
+    that though they were too polite absolutely to refuse his Toast, they
+    spit the Liquor out of their Mouths again; whether from Apprehension
+    of Intoxication or Poison, is not certain: However it looks as if they
+    had some Notion of such <em>European</em> Arts. What is more remarkable;
+    the Weather being very severe at that Season, the <span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">11</span>whole Colossal Troop
+    seemed as sensible of the Cold, and shivered like us little delicate
+    Mortals of Six Feet high. They had a few Giantesses with them, but as
+    the Captain did not survey them with the small End of his Spying-Glass,
+    I do not hear that he was much struck with their Charms.</p>
+
+  <p>This, my dear Friend, is all the Satisfaction I can give you. However I
+    am proud to be the first who has communicated this important Discovery
+    to <em>Europe</em>.</p>
+
+  <p>The Speculations it has already occasioned, and will occasion,
+    are infinite. The Wolf of the <em>Gevaudan</em>, that Terror of the
+    <em>French</em> Monarchy, is already forgotten. Naturalists, Politicians,
+    Divines, and Writers of Romance, have a new Field opened to them. The
+    Scale of <span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">12</span>Being ascends; we mount from the Pigmies of <em>Lapland</em> to
+    the Giants of <em>Patagonia</em>.</p>
+
+  <p>You will ask, but I cannot answer you, Whether the Scale of the
+    Country is in proportion to such Inhabitants? Whether their Oaks are
+    half as lofty again as the <em>British</em>; and such is your Zeal for
+    <em>England</em>, you will already figure a Fleet built of their Timber.
+    How large is the Grain of their Corn? of what Size their Sheep, Cows,
+    and Poultry? Do not go and compute by <em>Gulliver</em>'s Measures, and
+    tell me that a populous Nation of such Dimensions would devour the
+    Products of such a Country as Great <em>Tartary</em> in half a Year.
+    Giants there are; but what proportionable Food they have, except
+    Elephants and Leviathans, is more than I can tell. <span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">13</span>They probably do
+    not live upon Bantam-Chickens.</p>
+
+  <p>As you are still more of a Politician than a Naturalist, you will
+    be impatient to know if Captain <em>Byron</em> took Possession of the
+    Country for the Crown of <em>England</em>, and to have his Majesty's
+    Stile run, <span class="smcap">George</span> the Third, by the Grace of <span class="smcap">God</span>,
+    King of <em>Great-Britain, France, Ireland, and the Giants</em>! You will
+    ask why some of their Women were not brought away to mend our Breed,
+    which all good Patriots assert has been dwindling for some Hundreds of
+    Years; and whether there is any Gold or Diamonds in the Country? Mr.
+    <em>Whitfield</em> wants to know the same Thing, and it is said intends a
+    Visit for the Conversion of these poor blinded Savages.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">14</span></p>
+
+  <p>As soon as they are properly civilized, that is, enslaved, due care
+    will undoubtedly be taken to specify in their Charter that these Giants
+    shall be subject to the Parliament of <em>Great-Britain</em>, and shall
+    not wear a Sheep's Skin that is not legally Stamped. A Riot of Giants
+    would be very unpleasant to an Infant Colony. But Experience, I hope,
+    will teach us, that the invaluable Liberties of <em>Englishmen</em> are
+    not to be wantonly scattered all over the Globe. Let us enjoy them
+    ourselves, but they are too sacred to be communicated. If Giants once
+    get an Idea of Freedom, they will soon be our Masters instead of our
+    Slaves. But what Pretensions can they have to Freedom? They are as
+    distinct from the common Species as Blacks, and by being larger, may
+    be more useful, I would advise our prudent Merchants <span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">15</span>to employ them
+    in the Sugar Trade; they are capable of more Labour; but even then
+    they must be worse treated, if possible, than our Black Slaves are;
+    they must be lamed and maimed, and have their Spirits well broken,
+    or they may become dangerous. This too will give a little respite to
+    <em>Africa</em>, where we have half exhausted the Human, I mean, the
+    Black Breed, by that wise maxim of our Planters, that if a Slave lives
+    Four Years, he has earned his Purchase-Money, consequently you may
+    afford to work him to Death in that time.</p>
+
+  <p>The Mother Country is not only the First, but ought to be the sole
+    Object of our political Considerations. If we once begin to extend the
+    Idea of the Love of our Country, it will embrace the Universe, and
+    consequently annihilate <span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">16</span>all Notion of our Country. The Romans, so much
+    the Object of modern Admiration, were with difficulty persuaded to
+    admit even the rest of <em>Italy</em> to be their Countrymen. The true
+    Patriots never regarded any thing without the Walls of <em>Rome</em>,
+    except their own <em>Villas</em>, as their Country. Every thing was done
+    for immortal <em>Rome</em>, and it was immortal <em>Rome</em> that did
+    every thing. Conquered Nations, which to them answered to discovered
+    Nations with us, for they conquered as fast as they discovered, were
+    always treated accordingly; and it is remarkable that two Men equally
+    famous for their Eloquence have been the only Two that ever had the
+    weakness to think that conquered Countries were intituled to all the
+    Blessings of the Mother Country. <em>Cicero</em> treated <em>Sicily</em>
+    and <em>Cilicia</em> as tenderly as the District <span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">17</span>of <em>Arpinum</em>, and
+    I doubt it was the folly of that Example that misled his too exact
+    Imitator on a late occasion. However, the Giants must be impressed
+    with other Ideas: Bless us, if like that Pigmy old <em>Oliver</em>, they
+    should come to think the Speaker's Mace a Bawble!</p>
+
+  <p>What have we to do with <em>America</em>, but to conquer, enslave, and
+    make it tend to the Advantage of our Commerce? shall the noblest
+    Rivers in the World roll for Savages? shall Mines teem with Gold for
+    the Natives of the Soil? and shall the World produce any Thing but for
+    <em>England</em>, <em>France</em>, and <em>Spain</em>? It is enough that the
+    Overflowings of Riches in those three Countries are every Ten Years
+    wasted in <em>Germany</em>.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">18</span></p>
+
+  <p>Still, my political Friend, I am not for occupying <em>Patagonia</em>, as
+    we did <em>Virginia</em>, <em>Carolina</em>, &amp;c. such might be the Politics
+    of Queen <em>Elizabeth</em>'s Days. But modern Improvements are wiser. If
+    the Giants in question are Masters of a rich and flourishing Empire, I
+    think they ought to be put under their Majesties, a <em>West-Indian</em>
+    Company; the Directors of which may retail out a small Portion of their
+    Imperial Revenues to the Proprietors, under the Name of a Dividend.
+    This is an excellent Scheme of Government totally unknown to the
+    Ancients. I can but think how poor <em>Livy</em> or <em>Tacitus</em> would
+    have been hampered in giving an Account of such an <em>imperium in
+    imperio</em>. <em>Cassimirus Alius Caunus</em>, (for they latinized every
+    proper Name, instead of delivering it, as uncouthly pronounced by their
+    <span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">19</span>Soldiers and Sailors) would have sounded well enough: But Dividends,
+    Discounts, <em>India</em> Bonds, <em>&amp;c.</em> were not made for the Majesty
+    of History. But I am wandering from my Subject; though, while I am
+    talking of the Stocks and Funds, I could chalk out a very pretty New
+    South-Sea Scheme, <em>à propos</em> to the <em>Patagonians</em>. It would
+    not ruin above Half the Nation, and would make the Fortunes of such
+    industrious Gentlemen, as during the Want of a War in <em>Germany</em>
+    cannot turn Commissaries.</p>
+
+  <p>Command is the Object of every Man's Ambition; but by the impolitic
+    Assent of Ages and Nations to Hereditary Monarchy, you must be begotten
+    on a Queen, or are for ever excluded from wearing a Diadem; except in a
+    very few Instances; as in <em>Poland</em>, where the <span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">20</span>Throne is elective;
+    in <em>Corsica</em>, where they will not acknowledge Hereditary Right
+    in the Republic of <em>Genoa</em>; in <em>Russia</em>, where a Soldier's
+    Trull succeeded her Husband the <em>Czar</em>, and where there are other
+    Ways of succeeding a Husband; in <em>Peru</em> where they are tired of
+    exchanging their Gold for Tyrants; and in <em>Paraguay</em>, where the
+    Outcasts of the Earth, and the Inventors of the Oath of Obedience,
+    have thrown off all Submission to their Prince, and having mounted the
+    Throne, will probably renounce the Oath of Chastity too. But it is to
+    <em>England</em> that Persons of the lowest Birth are indebted for the
+    Invention and Facility of weilding at least Part of a Scepter. Buy
+    but an <em>India</em> Bond and you have a Property in the Kingdom of
+    <em>Bengal</em>. Rise to be a Director, and the <em>Mogul</em> has not more
+    Power <span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">21</span>appointing and displacing Nabobs. <em>Indian</em> Sovereigns may
+    now be born in <em>Threadneedle-Street</em>.</p>
+
+  <p>What the Government means by pocketing a whole Nation of Giants, is
+    not to be conceived. It ought again to draw down the Vengeance of
+    their Antagonists on the present Ministers. I am sure they have done
+    nothing worse. Who knows but at this Instant they may be preparing to
+    pour in Forty or Fifty thousand Giants upon us? Their Love of Liberty,
+    their Tenderness of the Constitution, their Lenity, Mildness and
+    Disinterestedness, their Attention to the Merchants, in short, all
+    their Virtues may be affected, and only calculated to lull us asleep,
+    until the fatal Blow is struck. I own my Apprehensions are gloomy; yet,
+    thank <span class="smcap">God</span>, we have a <span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">22</span>pretty tall Opposition, who will not
+    suffer us to be enslaved by any Thing higher than themselves.</p>
+
+  <p>In the mean Time, till we know something of the Matter, it is to be
+    hoped, that all speculative Authors, who are so kind as to govern and
+    reform the World through the Channel of the News Papers, will turn
+    their Thoughts to Plans for settling this new acquired Country. I
+    call it new acquired, because whoever finds a Country, though Nobody
+    has lost it, is from that Instant intitled to take a Possession of
+    it for himself, or his Sovereign. <em>Europe</em> has no other Title
+    to <em>America</em>, except Force and Murder, which are rather the
+    executive Parts of Government than a Right. Though <em>Spain</em>
+    pretends a Knowledge of our Giants, she has forfeited all Pretensions
+    to their Allegiance, <span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">23</span>by concealing the Discovery; as is plain from
+    the Decision of the <em>Canon</em> Law, <em>Tit. de novis regionibus non
+    abscondendis</em>.</p>
+
+  <p>The first Thought that will occur to every good Christian, is, that
+    this Race of Giants ought to be exterminated, and their Country
+    colonized; but I have already mentioned the great Utility that may
+    be drawn from them in the Light of Slaves. I have also said, that
+    a moderate Importation might be tolerated for the Sake of mending
+    our Breed; but I would by no Means come into a Project I have heard
+    dropped, and in which Propagation would not be concerned, I mean the
+    Scheme of bringing over a Number of Giants for second Husbands to
+    Dowagers. <em>Ireland</em> is already kept in a State of Humiliation. We
+    check their <span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">24</span>Trade, and do not allow them to avail themselves of the
+    best situated Harbours in the World. Matrimony is their only Branch of
+    Commerce unrestricted, and it would be a most crying Injustice to clog
+    that too.</p>
+
+  <p>In truth, we are not sufficiently acquainted with these Goliaths to
+    decide peremptorily on their Properties. No Account of them has been
+    yet transmitted to the Royal Society: But it would be exceedingly
+    adviseable, that a Jury of Matrons should be sent in the next
+    embarkation to make a report; and old Women for old Women, I would
+    trust to the Analysis of the Matrons in preference to that of the
+    Philosophers.</p>
+
+  <p>I will now, my Friend, drop the political Part of this Discussion, and
+    inform <span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">25</span>you what effect this Phænomenon has had on another Set of Men.
+    It has started an obvious and very perplexing Question, <em>viz.</em>
+    whether these Giants are <em>Aborigines</em>; if they are not, from which
+    of the Sons of <em>Noah</em> are they descended, and in that case how we
+    shall account for this extraordinary increase of Stature?</p>
+
+  <p>The modern Philosophers are peremptory that these Giants are
+    <em>Aborigines</em>, 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 <em>Noah</em> was of Stature
+    supereminent to his Brethren. Yet we will <span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">26</span>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 <em>America</em>
+    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 <span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">27</span><em>Africa</em> to
+    <em>America</em>? 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
+    <em>Polyphemes</em>? Or to come to the Third Point, is it the Climate
+    that has ripened them, as <em>Jamaica</em> 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 <span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">28</span>of their <em>Jewish</em> Origin. Their
+    Cult is in all likelihood less corrupted from that of the Sons of
+    <em>Noah</em>, than is to be found elsewhere: their Language possibly the
+    Genuine <em>Hebrew</em>, not <em>Phœnician</em>; 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 reasonable
+    than any <em>Hypothesis</em> I have yet heard on the Subject.</p>
+
+  <p>Whatever their Religion shall appear to be, it will be matter of great
+    Curiosity. <span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">29</span>We scarce know of any People, except the <em>Hottentots</em>,
+    or the <em>Heroes</em>, who lived in the Days of <em>Fingal</em>, among
+    whom no Traces of any Religious Notions or Worship have been discovered.</p>
+
+  <p>If they are not <em>Jews</em>, 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.</p>
+
+  <p>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 <span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">30</span>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.</p>
+
+  <p>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, <em>&amp;c.</em> 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: <span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">31</span>and that we shall not throw away
+    Fifteen or Twenty Thousand Men in conquering their Country, as we did
+    at the <em>Havannah</em>, only to restore it to the <em>Spaniards</em>:</p>
+
+  <p class="mt5"><em>July 1, 1766.</em></p>
+
+  <p class="center mt5">Your's,</p>
+
+  <p class="right mt5"><em>S. T.</em></p>
+
+  <hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+  <div class="transnote">
+    <div class="large center"><b>Transcriber’s Notes:</b></div>
+    <ul class="spaced">
+      <li>Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.</li>
+      <li> Antiquated spelling is unchanged.</li>
+      <li>Cover is the frontispiece to <cite>A Voyage Round the World, In His Majesty's Ship
+        The Dolphin, Commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron (1767)</cite>,
+        the book that this book satirizes.<br>Caption: <i>A Sailor giving a Patagonian Woman some
+        Biscuit for her Child.</i></li>
+    </ul>
+  </div>
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