The Placer herald., 1860-07-07
Account of Giants.
From Memoir lately read before the Academy
Of Sciences at Rouen.

appearances NAV be, they are nevertheless
true. Profane historians all mention Giants:
They gave seven feet of hight to Hercules,
seen mer eight feet high. The giant who
was shown in Rouen, in 1895, measured
eight feet some inches; the Emperor Maxi
milan was Of that size; Skenhius and PIa
cries, physicians Of the last century, saw
several of tha, stature; and Goropius saw y
girl that was ten feet high.
The body of Orestes, according TO the
Greeks, was eleven feet aud half; the giant
Galbora, brought from Arabin To Rome un
der Claudies Cesar, was near ten feet; AM,
the bones of Secondilla and Pusio, keepers
of the gardens of Ssllusi, were hut six inches
shorter.
Fnnnam, q Scotchman, who lived in the
time of Eugene, the second king of Scotland,
measured eleven feet and halt; and Jacob
e Marie, in his voyage to the Straits of Ma
gellan, reports, that on the l7th of Decem
Der, 1915. they found at Port Desire, several
graves covered with stones, and having the
curiosity TO remove the stones, they discov-
cred human skeletons of ten and eleven feet
long.
The Chevalier Srory, in his voyage to the
Peak of Teneritfe, says that they f und in
one of the sepnlchral caverns Of that noun
tain, the head of Guanrhe, which had
eighty teeth, and that the body WAS not less
than fifteen feet long.
The giant Ferragus, san hy Orlando,
nephew of Chsrlemagne, was eighteen feet
high.
Revland, celebrated anatomist who wrote
in 1914, says, that some years before there
WAS to be seen in the suburbs of St. Ger
main, the tomb of the giant Isoret, who was
twenty eet high.
In Rouen, in 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the minicamo, they found a
stone tomb containing skeleton, whose
skull held bushel of corn, and whose shin
bone reached up to the girdle o. the talIest
man there; being about four feet long and
consequently the body must have been seven
teen or eighteen feet high upon the tomb
was plate of copper, whereon was engraved,
"ln this tomb lies the noble ard Puissant
Lord, the Chevalier Ruon de Vallem""' :.''
- .v",~.- Tlaterus, famous physician,
declared that he saw At Lucerne the true hu-
man bones of subject, which must have
been at least nineteen fec, high.
Valance. in Danphine, boasts Of possessing
the bones Of the giant Bucart, tyran: of the
Vivarais who WAS slain by an arrow by the
Count de Cabion, his vassal. The Domn-
leans had part of the shin bone. with the
articulation of the knee, and his figure pa Mt
ed in fresco, with an inscription showing
that this giant was twenty-five feet and
half high. aud that his bones we're found in
1905 near the banks Of the Morder, little
river at the foot of the mountain Of Crusol,
upon which (radition says), the giant dwelt.
January II, 1913, some masons digging
near the ruins of cas.le in Dauphine in a
field which (by ira lition) had long been
called the giants field. at the depth of eight
cen feet discovered brick tomb thirty feet
long, twelve feet wide, and eight feet high,
on which WAS gray stone, with the words
Theutobochns Rex cut thereon; when the
tomb was opened, they found n human skel-
eton entire, twenty five feet and half long,
feet deep from the breast bone to the back,
his teeth we're each about the size of an ox's
foot. and his shin bone measured four feet.
Near Margarine, in Sicily. in 1916, was
found a giant thirty feet high: and his head
was the size of abogshead, and each of his
teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Niagara in
Sicily, q skeleton of giant, thirty feet long,
was found in the year l54S. and another of
thirty-three feet high, in 1850, and many Gu
rious persons have preserved several of the
gigantic bones
The Ahenians found near thrty-two IA
nous skeletons, one thirty four, and another
of thirty feet high.
At Totic, in Bohemia. in 1888, WAS found a
skeleton, the head of which could scarce be
encompassed by the arms Of two men .ogeth-
er, and whose legs, which they still keep in
the castle of the city, were twenty six feet
long.
The skull of the giant found in Macedonia,
September, 1891, held two hundred and ten
pounds of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who eat.
ell the matter very learnsdy, does not doubt
these facts, but thinks the bones were those
of elephants, whales or other animals. Ele-
plants bones may be shown for those of
giants, but this Gan never impose on con
noisseurs.
Whales, which by their immense bulk,
are more proper to be substituted for the
largest giants, have neither arms nor legs,
and the head of that animal hath not the
least resemblance with that Of man; If it
be true, therefore, that a great number of
the gigantic bones, which we have mention.
nd have been seen by anatomists and have
by them been reputed real human bones.
the existence Of giants is proved.
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