Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-06-26

na''ohs that at'a later period occupied
these countries; for even they regarded
them as the work and production of a
primitive and departed race Of giants and
hence tue name the monuments received.
When we consider how very imperfect
must have bsen the instruments Of those
remote ages, and that they eau not be sup
posed to have possessed the knowledge in
mechanics which the Egyptians, for iu-
stance. displayed in the erection Of their
otelisks, we can easily conceive how men
! were ted TO imagius that more vigorous
arms, aud otLer powers than those belong
ing to the present race Of men, were
necessary to the construction Of those
| edi6ces Of rock
The cyclopean remains in Italy and
Greece are apparently progressive, and yet
perfectly Distinct from the Etruscan and
Latin styles OF architecture. The walls of
Tiryus, near Nauplia, alluded to by Homer,
and those of Lcrms. iu Italy, are examples
of tue ruder styass those Of Mycerp and
Epirus Of the more adsanced in these
the blocks arc carefully fitted together.
And not only arc these ruins found over
Greece aud Italy. for Asia Minor, PL@n.
cia, Persia, Malabar, Brittany, Great Brit.
ain, and even North and South America
afford exsmples Of eyclopean architecture.
Now, in. most OF these cases, popular ira
dition refers the origin of these relics to
giants. 1n Italy and Greecu they are al.
tribu.ed to the Cvclops, primitive race of
giants, skilled in architecture, whose lea
der WIS said by Homer to be oue.evcd
aud hence .his peculiarly was extended,
by Subsequent writer's, to the whole race.
In Malta is remarkable cyclopcan struc
ture, supported on huge pillars, and pop.
ularly called "Thc Giants Grave" Some
Of tue blocks Of. stone arc thirty feet long
s'onehengs itself was said by Welsh ira.
ditiop to hare been built by '.gian,s who
came from Africa" This il significant.
since the Carlhsgiuisns, The greatest en-
plcysrs of meroenaries, colonizsd portion
Of England and Ireland.
The very names ofsome of the British
csc'opean antiquities show the evidence OF
! traditionas to their origin, as for Inc lance,
':The aisn,'s Rel." The Giants Grave"
@The Giants Load" ''The Old Wife's
tih," "The Giant. Quot" 'The Hays
Bsd,' dc. In Brittany it is very curious
that The grapdest relic of antiquity, a
whole valley full Of huge atnnes, i. called.
"Carn"c,"-a name evidently identical
will that temple in Egypt upon which the
exploits of the Rephaim are recorded.
a curious light has been lately thrown
upon 1l'e'antiqui,iss of Western Europe
ty the discovery in the old region ,et the
giants, now inbsbiled by the: Druiss, Of
the d".ncs and ciiiesof the Anakim. The
Rev.iM. Por,er and Mr.. cyril Graham
have found the whole OF ancient Bashan
coyezed~~tth ruins hitherto unknown TO
Europeans. 10 tl.e cities of, Eorio,h and
Kariadaim are Lopsss strong: enough to
'resist The vio'snse of uan or Of nature
.ho 1yphe.s fstansa. ef beam. of .s.ens in
jgs!sadakjsn, .Tabty ilse itst: t:lonsf sup
- EI1epars stone pillars, and ISgs
apf single stone, :s.Fiess
E asslia,, contain probably
epecimens: Of domestic
! existing in; the worlJ,
t&eF. In eonclusien,1 there /
no doubtsbat The eram1eeh. Of cel.ie. coue
sries irresistibly suggoss the ides.of 'Lstita
tion.; indeed 40 other use can baassiguat
fSi them. Their height 10 too great fo
: u.e asa'tars. It is JUS. possible ,ha, Ii,
vast physical and mental powers wl,icl
chase~ss5szea the giants may .baye, causs.
their dedication when extinct by infe.io
races, and thos their temples and residence
might'even come TO ba regarded with su:
tpsrstiuous respect, or copied and repro
. dosed an phjeels of:worship AT any rate
: this caunot'ba denied, giants once sxiste
as rreces, not, as individual exception,
4hatthey were coafned exclusively u
; Palestine, !. have shown to: ba,. To-. say Ii
icsst OF il, improbable. -
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