Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-03-07
GIANTS OF OTHER DAYS.
Specimens Of Mammoth Men-Ten to Thirty
Feet In HelOht,

The Bible mentions several races of
giants, as the Raphaims, the Anaklms,
the Emims, the Zonz1nims, and Others.
Profane historians also mention giants +;
they gave seven feet of height 10 Her
cules, their first hero, and In our days we
have seen men eight feet high. The
giant who was shown In Rouen, In 1875
measured eight feet some inches. the
Emperor Maximin was of that size
Skenklus and Platerus, physicians Of the
last century, saw several Of that stature
and Goropius saw girl 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 Claudlus Cesar, was near
ten feet and the bones OF Secondilla and
Puho, keepers of the gardens of Sallust,
was but six inches shorter.
Funnam, a Scotchmsn, who lived in
the time OF Eugene the Second, King Of
Scotland measured eleven feet and half
and Jacob la Marie, 10 his voyage to the
Straits of Magellan, reports that on the
18th Of December, 1915, they fonnd at
Port Desire several graves covered with
stones and having the curiosity TO re.
move the stones, they discovered human
skeletons of ten and eleven feet long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage TO
the Peak of Tenerifle, says that they
found 10 one of the eepulchral cnvcrns
Of that mountain the head of a Gauuche,
which had eighty teeth, ard that the body
was not less than fifteen feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando,
nephew of Charlemagne, was eighteen
feet high.
Roland, celebrated anatomist, who
wrote in 1914, says that, some years be-
fore, there was to be seen in the suburbs
of 81. GERMAN the tomb of tho giant
Isoret, who was twenty feet hign.
In Rouen, 10 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the Dominicans, they found
a stone tomb containing a skeleton, whose
skull held a bushel OF corn, and whose
shin bone reached mp to the glrdle of the
tallest man there, being about four feet
long, and consequently the body must
have been seventeen or eighteen feet
high. Upon the tomb was a plate of
copper, whereon was engraved, "In'this
tomb lies the noble and puissant lord,
the Chevaler Ricnn de Vallemont, and
his bones" Platerus, famous physician,
declares that he saw at Lucerne the true
human boues of subject which must
Valence in Dauphue boasts of possess
ing the bones of the giant Bucart, tyrant
of tho Vivarals, who was slain by an
arrow by the Count de Cabillon, his
vassal. The Dominicans had a 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 twenty-five feet and a half
high, and that his bones were found in
1705 near the banks of the Morderl, a
little river at the foot of the mountain of
Crussol, upon which, tradition says, the
giant dwelt.
January 1lth, 1913, some masons dig
ging near the ruins of castle In
Dauphne, 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 a
gray stone with the words, Jheutohochus
Rex, cut thereon. When the tomb was
opened they found a hDmen skeleton en-
| tlre-twenty-hve feet and-a half long, ten
/ feet wide across the shoulders, and Eve
| feet deep from the breast-bone to tue
back. His teeth were about the size each
of an ox's foot, and his shin-bone mea-
sured four feet.
| Near Mezlrino, in Sicily, in 1916, was
/ found giant thirty feet high hie head
the size of a hogshead; and each of his
teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, In the valley of Mazaren
In Sicily, a skeleton Of giaut thirty feet
long was found in the year l54s, and
another Of thirty-three feet high In 1850
aud many curious persons have preserved
several of these gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near their City
two famous skeletons, one of thirty four
and the Other of thiriy-siX feet high.
At 10th, in Bohemia, IN 75s, vas found
a skeleton, the head of which could scarce
be eucompassed by the arms Of two men
together, and whose legs, which they still
keep in the castle of that city, were
twenty. ak feet long.
The skull Of the giant found in Mace.
donia, September, 1901, held 2l0 pounds
of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who
treated this matter very learnediy, does
not doubt these facts, but thinks the
bones were those of elephants, whales
or other enormous animals.
Elephants bones may be shown fol
those Of giants, but they can never i'm
pose on cOnnoisseurs.
Whales, which by their immense bulE
are more proper TO be substituted for thl
largest giant, have neither arms nor legs
and the head Of that animal has not the
least resemblance to that Of a man. il
it be true, therefore, that great number
of the gigantic bonts which we hav'
mentioned have been seen by anatomists
aud have by them been reputed rea
human bones, the existence of giants il
proved.