Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-07-04


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 lsra-
elites, was ten feet seven inches high, and was
one Of The last branches of that family; and the
Scripture hath mentioned four others, one OF
which was brother TO Goliah, and was saln by
David and his soldiers.
Profane historians have moi 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 The
gigantic size; and, in our days, we have seen
men eigh, feet high The emperor Maximln
is reported 10 have been of that size.
The body of Oresies, according 10 the Greeks,
was eleven fee, and half; The giant Galbara,
brought from Arabia to Rome, under ClaudiuS
Caesar, was near ten feet; and the bones of Sc
condila and Pusio, keepers of the gardens Of
Sallusi, were but six inches shorter.
Funnam, Scotsman, who lived in The time
of Eugene the second, king Of Scotland, meas
ured eleven fee, and half; and Jacob le Mare,
in his Voyage TO the Straits of Magellan, re-
ports, that the l7h of December, 1918, they
found at Port Desire several graves covered
with stones; and, having the curiosity 10 move
the stones. they discovered several human skel-
elons of len and eleven feet long.
The Cheralier Soory, in his Voyage TO the
Peak of Tenerffe, relates that they found IN
one of the sepulchlal caverns of that mountain,
the head of Gsunche, which had eighty teeth,
and that the body (which was in The burial
place of the kings of Guimar, and of whose
race it was said TO be) was not less than fifteen
feel high
The gian, Ferragus, slain by Orlando, neph-
ew to Charlemagne. was eighteen feet high.
Rioland, celebrated Anaiomis,, who wro'e
in the year 1914, says, iha, some years before
there was 10 be seen, in the suburbs of ST.. Ger
maine a, Paris, near ST. Peters Chapel, the
tomb Of the gian. Isorei, who was twenty fee,
high.
In the City Of Rouen, in 1909, some per-
sons employed in digging IN the bitches near
the Jacobins, found stone tomb. which con-
tanned skeleton whose skull held a bushel ol
corn, and whose shlnbone reached up 10 the
srdle of the tallest man there, il being abou,
four feet long, and consequently the body must
have been seventeen or eighteen feet high
Opoh "oS q Pio'S W Sot'POi,
was engraved, ain this tomb lies lhe noble and
pussant lord the Chevaier Ricon de Vallemoai
and his bones" Platerus, famous physician
and who certainly knew human bones from
others. declares. that he saw at Lucerne, the
true human homes of subject, which mus
have been al least nineteen feet high.
Valence in Dauphine. boasts of possessing
the bones Of the gian, Bucarl, tyranl of The VI
varias. who was SLAIN by an arrow, by the
Count do Cabillon, his vassal. The Domini
clans had part of the shln-bone, with the ar
,lcula,ion of the knee, and his figure painted il
Freseo, with an inscription, showing, that thl,
giant was twenty TWO feet and a hall high, ant
that his bones were found In l7U5, near ihs
banks of The Merderi. lite river al The foo
of The mountain of Crussol. upon which Qrad
,ion says) the giant d@et. This river over
| flowing It's banks, discovered a very long anC
wide BRICK tomb, in which were these bones
and an arrow, which they supposed 10 be the
same which slew him.