Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-07-01

Slight and inconsequential as this success
may appear. it encouraged the party to
further explorations. These resulted, to
cut my story short, in the actual liscove-
nv of the remains of colossal human be-
ing, who could not have been less than
twenty-five feet six inches in stature p
Jones amazement may be conceived!
''It cannot exceed mine" :" said l.
but it was probably nothing" contin-
ued Dick, compared with that of Serto-
rius, if we may believe Plutarch. How
great remarks that usually cold and eau
tious writer (betrayed for moment into
enthusiasm, y how great was his surprise,
when, opening the sepulcher of the Ph@-
nician Antaus, he beheld body sixty
cubits long,"
Il should think SOP
Now" resumed MY friend, brightly,
what is this pigmy, compared with more
recent acquisitions? What would Serto-
rious have said to the giant Trapani-six-
teenth century-described by Boccaccio,
who attained the heighth of two hundred
cubits, and one of whose teeth. yet sound
and serviceable, and weighing six pounds
and four ounces avoirdupois, is still pre-
served in the museum at Berlin %
Labelled. ignorantly, 'mastodon.' I
have seen it," said I.
While, = oaslnded Lppgchild. from;
lag, fcinains even more stupendous,
have revealed themselves to the scientific
investigator. cannot accept three hun
dred feet, British measure, as the ordima-
ry stature of man, at any definite epoch.
But, twenty-five is very different affair
1t is, in point of fact, hardly more than
double the height of well-developed indi-
viduals Of our own time, occasionally to
be seen---'
''For shilling" I put in.
"Undeteriorated specimens" pursued
Mr.. Longchild, firmly, "of a race that
peopled the earth in it's august adolescence.
To what may we attribute their present
rarity? Simply to this. That. nature,
delighting in contrasts. somewhere called
into existence, new and puuy race, in
tended probably as objects of curiosity and
mirth to their mightier brethren. That.
nevertheless, one of the latter, with NOR
bid love OF the opposite, and disregard
of the general interests Of humanity which
cannot be too severely reprehended, took
to wife some wretched little ffteen-foo
thing, and inaugurated that decadence, o.
which" concluded Dick. striking his palm
upon the table with force that made the
glasses ring, 1--WE are reaping the bittcl
and humiliating fruits''
But" observed, ''to return to these
highly valuable Sandman remains. I.
there no reason to apprehend that they
may be claimed by the country to which
they undoubtedly belong? There are an
tiquarians in that island-Spano, and 9th
ers-no less enthusiastic than our own in
domitable jones'"
"Spano," replied Mr.. Longchild
handsomely declined to advance an,
claim on behalf Of his government. 1t i
true he did not seem entirely satisfied tha
Jones conjecture was correct"
1.-The skeleton was incomplete ?"
ITO the uninitiated, yes," said Dick
1.-The non scientific observer demands tha
Everything should be revealed to his &C
tual senses. Literally. then, these inval
liable relics consisted of most gratifying g
though inconsiderable, portion Of the thigl
bone: a fbula that left nothing to be de
sired and, to crown all, couple of grind
ers. These. my friend, were all. Blu
here, science steps into our aid. Throug
her marvellous lens, we see these seem
ingly discovered bones drawn together
and, united with their missing fellow
grow into the mighty creature of whic
they had once formed part. We gaze
with awe and rapture, on those ship-lik
ribs; those tree-like legs; that dome lik