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found, in Scarborough's cave, which is on the Calf Killer river, a branch of the Cany fork, about 12 or 15 miles from Sparta, in a little room in the cave, many human bones of a monstrous size. He took a jaw bone & applied it to his own face, & when his chin touched the concave of the chin bone, the hinder ends of the jaw bone did not touch the skin of his face on either side. He took a thigh bone and applied the upper end of it to his own hip joint, and the lower end reached four inches below the knee joint. Mr Andrew Bryan saw a grave opened about 4 miles northwardly from Sparta, on the Calf Killer fork. He took a thigh bone, and raising up his knee, he applied the knee joint of the bone to the extreme length of his own knee, & the upper end of the bone passed out behind him as far as the full width of his body. Mr Lawrence is about 5 feet 10 inches, high, and Mr Bryant about 5 feet 9. Mr Sharp Whitely was in a cave near the place, where Mr Bryan saw the graves opened. In it, were many of these bones. The skulls lie plentifully in it, and all the other bones of the human body; all in proportion & of monstrous size. Human bones were taken out of a mound on Tennessee river, below Kingston, which Mr Brown saw measured by Mr Simms. The thigh bones of these skeletons, when applied to Mr Simms' thigh