The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-07-30
ACCOUNT OF GIANTS.

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That most ancient aud respectable OF
all histories, the Holy Bible, establishes
To us distinctly several races of giants, as
the Rephams, the Ankims, the Enims, the
ZonzonlmS, sc.
The Anakims, or descendants of AJAX,
were the inhabitants of the Promised
Land, to which Moses would lead the
Jews. 1t was those Anakims, who being
seen by the spies, sent by the Hebrew
General, were reported 10 be men of that
size, that the Hebrews were but as grass
hoppcrs toethem. The giant Oe, king Of
Basan, overcome by Moses, was of that
race whose btdslcad of brass measured
fifteen feet and IA half" and the Rabbns
sustain. that that was not even his bed,
but only his cradle, when a Guild
When Joshua entered the land Of Cana
an, he defeated the descendants Of Anak,
who inhabited the cites of Hebron, Dabir
aud Anab, and only So AIRED those Of GAIA,
Gath and Azoth, where, for many ages, the
tombs OF these giants were seen; and
where rosephus informs us, that, in his
time, their bones Of IL monstious and i'll
credible size were yet shewn.
The Rephaims, descended from Rapha,
and continued below the time of David;
Goliath of Gath, who was slain by that
king Of the lsracliles, was ten feet, seven
inches high, and was one of the last BRAN
ches OF that family; and the scripture hath
mentioned four others. one of which was
brother to Golah, and were SLAM by Da-
vid and his soldiers
Prophane Historians have NOT been less
fruitful on this subject. They gave seven
feet Of height TO Hercules their first hero,
which is nothing surprising, as that is the
smallest of tho gigantic size, and, i'll our
days, we have seen men eight feet high.
The emperor Maxmin is reported 10 have
lecn Of that size.
The body of Ores,es, according to the
Greeks. was eleven feet and half; the
giant Galbara, brought from Arabia 10
Rome, under Claudius Cesar, was near
ten feet; and the bones OF Secondilla and
Pusio. keepers of the gardens Of Sallust,
We're but six inches shorter.
Funnam, Scolchman who lived in the
time OF Engine the second, king of Scot
land. measured eleven feet and h half; and
Jacob lie Marie, in his voyage to the
Sireghts of Magellan, reports that the
17'h of De ccmber, 1915, they found al
Port Desire several graves covered with
stones; and having the curiosity to re-
move the stones, they discovered several
human skeletons Of ten and eleven feet
long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his Voyage to
the Peek of Teneriilc, relates, that they
touEd, in ole Of the sepulchral caverns of
that mountain, the head Of Guanche,
which had eighty teeth, and that the body
(Which was III the burial-pace of the
kings of Guimar. and of whose race it was
said TO beg was not less than fifteen feet
high.
The giant Fcrragus, slain by Orlando,
nephew 10 Cllarlemage, was eighteen feet
high.
Roland, celebrated Anatomst, who
wrote in the year 1914, says that some
years before, there was to be seen in the
suburbs of ST. Germaine's iat Paris. near
st, Peters Chapel, the tomb OF the giant
Isoret. who was twenty feet high.
In the City of Rouen. in 1909, some
persons employ in digging in the ditch
es near the Jacobins, found stone tomb,
which contained. skeleton, whose skull
held bushel OF corn, and whose shin
bone reached up TO the girdle of the tall
est man there, it being about four feet long
and consequently the body must have
been seventeen or eighteen feet high
Upon the tomb was plate of copper,
wherein was engraved, sin this tomb lies
the noble end pussant lord, the Chevalier
Ricon de Vallemont and his bones."-
Pla.erus, IA famous physician, and who
certainly knew human bones from others,
declares, that he saw at Lucerne, the true
human bones of subject, which must
have been at least nineteen feet high.
Nalence III Danphine, boasts of posses
sin the bones of the great Bucart, tyrant
of the Vvarias, who was slain by an ar
row, by the Count dt Cabillion, his vas
sal. The Domnicans had part of the
shin bone, with the articulation of the
knee, and his figure painted in Fresco,
with an inscription, shelving, that this
giant was twenty-five feet and halt high,
and that his bones were found in 1905,
near the banks of the Mederi, little rv- !
CT al the foot of the mountain of Crussol,
upon which tradition says) the giant
dwelt. This river overlooking its banks
discovered a very long and wide brick }
tomb, in which were these bones q
arrow, which they supposed to-
same which slew him.