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


~ NJ. ,rb;cH measures three feet and hail
s 'an above six inches are broken OH
rom one end, and also one 81 hie te,
,n,,rm OF -,lkss loinsA Which s-,-%,ee leo.
eight inches in ciremHEse6se, eleven III
cIles high, the hole for the passage of the
spinal marrow being four inches in dame
ter. We may conclude, that this giant
must have been taller than the inscription
above cited makes him, al least unless he
had BEEN very ill proporlioned. which is
verv common in men OF such extraordlna-
ry size.
The Giant Theutoboehus, King Of the
Teutoni, went far beyond the Tyran' Bu- =
cart.
Florus says, that Marius, conc Gner,d and
took Theutobochus prisoner near the civ
of AK, and that tnal+King was singular
spectacle IN the 'xumph; for, says he, he
was so olg mat he surpassed even Il
trophies. nose trophies were trunks Of
trees, either .eit rougI'.-or cut into The
form OF 1nan, on viii h the Romans
hung the aYms and spoils of the vanqrsh-
ed. The only trophy which we have the
dimensions of in the antiquities Of father
Monlt9ucon, is that Of the triumphaI ach
at Carpentras, which is Thirteen feet four
inc hes high, these trophies were carried
by men, or in charlots, either Of which
would elevate them aboul four feet, which
then made it II feet TO the top Of their
heads. Therefore, if Theutobochus, when
walking in the triumph, was taller than
those figures, he must certainly have been
all astonishing spectacle To the Romans,
who were already little, if compared TO the
Gauls.
The historians Of Dauphinc deny that
Theutobochus was vanqushed near Aixs
or taken by Marius; but they say, Tho
battle was fought in Dauphinc, ia lews
leagues from Nalencc; and that 1heutoe.S
bochus died Of his wounds, and was btfg a
red by the care Of Nlarius tho conquer-a
or.
Bat be that as it viii. on January H.,
in the year 1913, some mas"ns digging in
field near the castle Of Chaumoul, in
Dauphine, in ii sandy soil. discovered Il
brick tomb, 80 feet long, u feet wide,
and eight feet high; on which was grey
stone, with the words IHCMOG0chus Rec
cut thereon, When the tomb was opened,
they found il human skeleton entire. 25
feet and half long, 10 feet wide across
the shoulders, s fee! deep from breast bone
to the back.
Before they moved bone, they ohserv-
cd the measure ol the head, which was )
feet in length, and 10 feet round; the low
er jaw was 6 feet round the ch from
joint 10 Joint; the circumference of each
orbit of the eye WAS seven inches, about
the size ol a small plate; each OF the col
lar bones was four feet long.
His teeth were about the size each of
four feet.
Near Mazarno in Sicily, in the Gear
1916, was found. Il Giant .IIi,ly Ie,4
high, his head the +,ize Of "A horshcaG,
and each Of his teeth weighed five oun-
ces.
Near to Palermo, in the Valley of Ma
era in Sicily, "a skeleton OF Giant, 80 feet
long, was found, in the yeat lois; aud an
other Of 33 feet high, in 1850; and many
curious persons have preserved several of
these gigantic bones.
The A!lhcnians found near their city
two famous skeletons, one ct lhrly-iol
and the other OF lhrty-sIx feet HIGH; also
sepulchrc, of one hundred aud fifty luet
long. which imclosed a skeleton Of a like
length, with an Inscription. AT Tou, in
Bohemia, III 7S5, was found Il skeleton the
head Of which could scarce be encompass. .,
sed by the arms of two men together; and"'
wi ose legs, which they still keep in the
castle Of lhrt city, were twcnly-six sct
long by which it may be supposed that,
thai Giant did exceed hundred aud ten
feet.
The skull of the giant found in Mace
donia, about six leagues from hessaIo-
Mica, in September, 1851, ga, the time
when NJ Quainct was consul for France
in that city, held 2l0 pounds of corn,
which is about five bushels French mca-
sure, and whose body was ninely-six feet
high.
Boccacc tells Of a Giant 800 feet high,
found near Trapani in Sicily, whose teeth
are still hung up in the church of that
town, and whichthe learned of that time
thought to be the skeleton OF Poly
pheme.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane Presi-
dent of the royal society of London, trca.
ted this matter very learnedly, not doubt
ing in the least of any Of these facts, but
of opinion that these bones were those of
whales, or other enormous an
im4ls.
Elephants bones may be shewn for
those of Giants but thpv can never i'm
pose on persons who have considered hu-
man bones ever SO lightly; the difference
between the two species is too striking,