The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-09-09
GIGANTIC HUMAN SKELETON

GIGANTIC HUMAN SKELETON
was found. The men who were dig
ging, becoming interested, uneaTthed
the entire skeleton, and from measure
ments given us by reliable parties, the
frame of the man to whom It belonged,
could not have been less than eight or
nine feet in hight. Under the skull,
which easily slipped over the head of
our informant, who, we will here state
is one of our best. t.citizens) was found a
peculiarly shaped earthen jar, resemb-
ling nothing in the way of Indian pot
terry which had before been seen by
them. Itwas exactly the shape of the
round-bOdied, long-necked cdrG6es or
water decanters, a specimen of which
may be seen on GastOn's dining tables.
The material of which this vase was
made was a peculiar kind Of clay, and
the workmanship was very fine. The
belly or body of it was Ornamented with
figures or hieroglyphics, consisting of a
correct delineatiOn of four hIapaan hands
parallel to each other, palms
outward, and running up 5Wn the
vase, the wrist toward the base, and
the fingers toward the neck. On either
side of these hands were ti6iCg or thigh
bones, also correctly delineated, run
ming around the vase. There were 9TH
er things found with the skeleton, but
this is all that our informant remem-
bers. Since that time wherever an ex-
cavatiOn has been made in the Chick
asawbia country in the neighborhood
of th0mound
SIMILAR SKELETONS
have been found, and under the skull
of every one were found similar funer-
al vases, almost exactly like the one
described. There are now in this city
several of the vases. The thigh and
shin bones, together with the bones of
the foot, stood up in a proper position,
measure five feet in hight, and show
the body to which the leg belonged to
have been from nine to ten feet in hight.
AT BeaufOrt's Landing, near tBarfield,
in digging deep ditch, a skeleton was
dug up, the leg of which measured be-
tween five and six feet in length, and
other bones in proportion. 1t is not
matter of doubt that these are
HUMAN REMAINS,
but of long EXTINCT race "a race which
lived and died many centu-
ries ago, in those days told of in the
Scripture. {" And there were giants
in those days.n) 1t was Sir Hans
the theory that the gigantic bones
found in various parts of the old world
were not human remains. This, 81
i'll according with the popular ideas
and superstitiOns about giants, was con-
sidered the rankest sort of heresy at
the time; but CuVier, the great anatO-
mist, proved them, in almost every in
stance, to be portions of the fossils of
meg gatheriums, mastOdOns,
etc. The bones that he examined, how
ever, were those Ofsuch apOcTyphal skel- |
etOns as that found in Sicily in the ear
ly part of the 18th century, three han
VaIence in 1905, thirty feet high, of the
'' chevalier Rinson," found at ROuen in
1909. Within the past century there
have been numerous well-attested in /
stances of giants over eight feet in hight |
for instance, Cotter (O'BrienG, who
- eight feet seven inches, Byrne,
eight feet six inches, and McGrath, |
seven feet nine inches high-alI of
whom were eXhibited&hrOughOut Eu-
rope. At the present time we recall |
but one living giant over eight feet !
in hight-Chang, the Chine9 giant. !
There is a giantess who was exhibited |
the South in 1S54-5, a Miss |
if we remember rightly, who !
was seven feet nine inches, etc. With |
these individual instances before us,
and knowing the enormous size of al |
most the entire population of portions
of Kentucky, we do not need to be des-
ciples of HenriOn, the French acade- |
n,ician (whO believed Adam was one |
hundred and twenty-five feet high, |
Noah twenty-seven feet, Moses twenty |
feet, and so on down to the era of Christ |
when the decrease stOpped) to be con-
vinced that the race of aboriginal men |
who built the large mounds in various |
parts of the country were of gigantic |
frame and enormous stature.
A London correspondent of the Chica- |
go Tribune writes: 8 a complete recon- |
ciliatiOn has taken place between Mrs. |
Dickens and her sister-it seems too |
painful to add-and between Mrs Dick |
eas and her eldest daughter. a few days |
ago there was a meeting between the |
three; much shedding of tears and poig- |
nat Ot feeling: but the end is as have |
iesc+lDas-s 1t would appear that it was |
rhp 1ncp1 ~ alone yyhO stood in fIna NOV