Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-14
GIANTS.

The bible mentions several cases OF
giants, as the Rephaims, the Anakims,
the Emmims, the ZOnzonims, and 9th
ers. Profane historians also mention
giants; they gave seven feet Of height
to Hercules, their first hero, and in oul
day we have seen men eight feet high.
The giant who was shown at Rouen in
1885 measured eight feet some inches.
The Emperor Maxlmin was of that
size; Skenkius and Platerus, physi-
clans of the last century, saw several OF
that stature, and Goropius saw a girl
who was ten feet high. .-..
The body of Orestes, according to
the Greeks, was IL feet; the giant
Galbara, brought from Arabia to Rome
under Claudius Caesar, was near 10 feet;
and the bones of Secondilla and Putio,
keepers of the gardens of Sallust, were
but six inches shorter
Funnam, a Scotchman, who lived at
the time of Eugene the Second, King
of Scotland, measured III feet; and
Jacob lie Marie, in his voyage to the
Straits of Magellan, reports that on the
Itch day of December, 1915, they found
at Port Desire several graves covered
with stones and having the curiosity
to remove the stones, they discovered
human skeletons of 10 and II feet
long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage
to the Peak of Teneriffe, says that they
found iii one of the sepulchral caverns
OF that mountain the head of a Gaunche,
which had 80 teeth, and that the BODY
was not less than Is feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando,
nephew Of Charlemagne, was Is feet
high.
Roland, a celebrated anatomist, who
wrote in 1914, says that, some years
before, there was to be seen in the sub
urbs of ST. German the tomb of the
giant Iso1et, who was 20 feet high.
In Rouen, in 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the Dominicans, they
found stone tomb containing a skele-
ton, whose skull held busheI of corn.
and whose shin-bone reached I'D to the
girdle of the tallest man there, being
about four feet long, and consequently
the body must have been II or Is feet
high. Upon the tomb was a plate of
| copper, whereupOn was engraved, " In
this tomb the noble and puissant lord,
the Chevalier Ricon de Vallemont, and
his bones" Plate1us, a famous ply
stefan, declares that he saw at Lu-
cerne the true human bones of sub
ject which must have been at least 10
feet high.
Valence, in Dauphine, boasts of
possessing the bones of the giant Yu-
cart, tyrant of the Vivarais, who was
slain by an arrow by the Count de Ca
billion, his yassal. The Dominicans
had part of the shin-bone, with the
articulation of the knee, and his figure
painted IN fresco, with an inscription
showing that this giant was 22a feet
high, and that his bones were found in
1705 near the banks of the M0rderi, a
little river at the foot of the mountain
Of Crussol, upon which, tradition says,
the giant dwelt. ....
January II, 1913, some masons dig
ging near the ruins of a castle in Dau-
phine, in a field which by tradition
had long been called the Giants field,
at the depth Of Is feet discovered a
brick tomb 80 feet long, - feet wide,
and feet high, on which was gray
stone, with the words Theutobochus
Rex cut thereon. When the tomb was
opened they found human skeleton
entire-25a feet long, 10 feet wide
across the shoulders, and five feet deep
rom the breast-bone to the back. His
teeth were about the size each of an
ox's foot, and his shin-bone measured
four feet.
Near Mezarino, in Sicily, 1916, was
found giant 80 feet high his head
was the size of a hogshead, and each of
his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Maza-
"a, in Sicily, a skeleton of a giant 80
feet long, was found IN the year 1913,
and another 3S feet high in 1850 and
many curious persons have preserved
several of these gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near their city
two famous skeletons, one of 81 and
the other of SO feet high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 758, 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 cas-
tie OF that city, were twenty six feet
long.
The skull of the giant found in Mac
edonia, September, 1891, held 21O
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
those OF giants, but they can never
impose on connoisseurs.
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 emblance to
that of a man. If it be true, therefore,
that great number of the gigantic
bones which we have mentioned have
been seen by anatomists, and have by
them been reputed real human bones, |
the existence of giants is proved
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