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wick, Mecklenburg, and many parts of the North *. The dark ignorance of fuc- ceeding ages not being able to compre- hend how fuch ftupendous edifices could be conftructed by mortals, have attributed them to demons and giants. But although the founders of thefe had not probably alt the affiftance we derive from the mecha- nic powers, yet great things might be ac- complished by men of fuch mighty force co- operating together. The Americans, un- aided by the engines we apply to thefe pur-
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of the monuments above- mentioned, with their fi- gures engraven on cop- per-plates, may be feen in KEYSLER. Antiq. Select. Septen. Sect. i. cap. 1. (cui titulus Defcriptio mo- numenti Salisburienfis, fimi- liumque que in Germania in Germania terrifque Artois cernuntur.) T. + In an ancient Ice- landic chronicle mention is made of a Norwegian named FINBOG, celebrat- ed for his ftrength. One day, fays the Author, he pulled up an enormous ftone, that was deep fixed in the earth, he took two other great ftones and placed them upon it, he carried them all three up- on his belly for fome mi- nutes, and at length threw them from him with fuch violence that the greateſt of them remained buried a great way in the earth. (Vid. Chrift. Worm. Diff. de Aræ Multifc. vit. & fcript. p. 172.) A multitude of fuch men uniting together might be able to difplace large and heavy fragments of rocks, and by means of the fcaffolding they ufed, viz. artificial banks, &c. might be able to fet them upright. Firft Edit. IX.qedpofes,
