Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
Giants.

giants, as the Rephaims, the A nakims
the Emims, Zonzonims and others. Pro.
fame historians also mention giants
they gave seven feet of height to Her
cules, their first hero, and in our days
we have seen men eight feet high. The
giant who was shown in Rouen in I735
measured eight feet some inches. The
Emperor Maximin was of that size
Skenkius and Platerus, physicians OF
the last century, saw. several of that
stature; and Goropius was a gir, who
was ten feet high.
The body of Orestes, according to the
Greeks, was eleven feet and half: the
giant Galbara, brought from Arabia to
Rome under: Claudius.. Caesar, was near
ten feet, and the bones of Secondilla
and Putio, keepers, of the gardens of
oalilist, were but six inches shorter.
Funnam, a ScOtchman who lived in
the time Of Eugene the Second, King
oil Scotland measured eleven feet and a
half; and Jacob lie Maire, in his voy-
age to the Straits of Magellan, reports
that on the 18th of December, 1915, thew
found at Port Desire several graves
covered with stones; and having the
curiosity to remove the stones, they
discovered human skeletons of ten and
eleyen:feet long. r
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Inc Cheva!ier Seory in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriffe, says that thev
found in one of the sepulchral cayerns
OF that mountain the head of Gaun-
che which had eighty teeth, and the
body was not less than fifteen feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by orlan-
Dc, nephew of Charlemagne, was eieh-
teen feet high. s
Rloland, celebrated .anatomist, who
wrote in 1914, says that some years be-
fore, there was to be seen in the sub
urbs OF st. Germain, the tomb of the
giant Isoret, who was twenty feet high.
In Rouen, in 1909, I'M digging in the
dltches near the Dominicans, they found
stone tomb containing a skeleton
whose skull held a.bushel of corn, and
whose shin-bone reached up to theigir-
die OF the tallest mana there, being
about four feet long, and consequently
the body must have been seventeen or
eighteen feet high. Upon the tomb was
plate of copper, whereupon was en-
graved,- sin this tomb lies the noble and
puissant lord. the Chevalier Ricon de
Vallemont, and his bones." Platerus,
famous. physician, declares that he
saw at Lucerne the true human bones
of subject which must have been at
least nineteen feet high.
Valence in Dauphine boasts Of pos
sessing the bones of the giant Bucart,
tyrant of the Vivarais, who was slain
by an arrow by the Count de Cabillion,
his vassal. The Dominicans had part
of the shinbones, with the articulation
of the knee, and his figure painted in
fresco, with an inscription sho wing that
this giant was twenty-five and half
feet high, and that his bones were
found in 17o5, near the banks of the
Morderi, little river at the foot of the
mountain of Crussol, upon which ira
dition says, the giant dwelt.
January IL, 1913, some masons dig
ging near the ruins of castle in Dau-
phine, in a field which by tradition had
long been called the Giants Field, at
the depth of eighteen feet discovered a
brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve
feet wide, and eight feet high, on which
was gray stone, with the words The
tobechus Rex cut thereon. When the
tomb was opened they found human
skeleton entire--twenty-ive feet and
half lsng, ten feet wide across the
shoulders, and five feet deep from the
breast-bone to the back. His teeth
were about the size each of an ox's foot
and the shin-bone measured four feet.
Near Mezarino, in Sicily in 1516 was
found giant thirty-feet high; his
head was the size of hogshead, and
each of his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Ma
cara, in Sicily, skeleton of giant
thirty feet long was found in the year
154S, and another of thirty-three feet
high IN 1850: and many curious per-
sens have preserved several of these
gigantic bones. The Athenians found
near their city two famous skeletons,
one of thir.y-four and the other of
thirty-six feet high.
AT Totu, in Bohemia, in 75s, was
found skeleton, the head of which
could scarce be encompassed by the
arms of two men together, and whose
legs, which they still keep in the castle
of that city, were twenty-six feet long.
The skull OF the giant found in Mac
edonia, September, 1851, held 30
pounds of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who
treated this matter very learnedly, does
not doubt these facts, but thinks the
bones were those of elephants, whales,
or other enormous animals.
Elephants bones may be shown for
these of giants, but they can never i'm
pose On cennoisseurs.
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
has not the least resemblance to that of
a man. II 1t be true, therefore, that q
great number of the gigantic bones
which we mentioned have been found
by anatomists, and have by them been
reputed real human bones, the exist
ence of giants is proved.-Havper's
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