The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-06
GIANTS.


The body of Orestes, according to the
Greeks, was eleven feet and half; the
giant Galbara, brought from Arabia to
Rome under Claudus Caesar, was near
ten feet !; and the bones of Secondilla and
Pu6o, keepers of the gardens of Sallust,
were but six inches shorter.
Furman, a Scotchman, who lived in
the time of Eugene the Second, King OF
Scotland, measured eleven feet and half;
and Jacob le Marie, in his voyage to the
Straits Of Magellan, reports that on the
nth oE December, 1915, they found 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 Teneriffe, says that they found
in one of the sepulchral caverns OF that
mountain, the head of Gaunche, which
had eighty teeth, and that the body was
not less than fifteen feet long.
The giant Feragus, slain by Orlando,
nephew of Charlemague, WAS eighteen feet
high.
wrote in 1914, says that, some years be-
fore, there was to be seen in the suburbs
of st. Germain, the tomb of the giant IsO-
ret, who was twenty feet high.
In Rouen, in 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the Dominicans, they found
stone tomb containing a skeleton, whose
skull held bushel of corn, and whose
shin bone reached up to the giIdle of tho
! 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,
whereof was engraved, ''In this tomb lies
the noble and puissant lord, the ChevaLer
Ricon de VallemOnt and his bones.' Pla-
terus, famous physician, declares that he
saw at Lucerne the true human bones of 4
subject which must have been at least
nineteen feet high.
Valence in Dauphine boasts of possess
ing the bones of the giant Bucart, tyrant
of the Vivarais, who was slain by an ar
row by the Count de Cabillon, his vassal.
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
twenty-five feet and a half high, and that
his bones were found in 17Oj near the
banks of the Morderi, a little river at the
foot of the mountain of CrussOl, upon
which, tradition says, the giant dwelt.
January II, 1913, some masons digging
near the ruins of castle in Dauphin, in a
feld which by tradition had long been
called the Giants Field, at the depth of
eighteen feet discovered brick tomb
thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and
eight feet high, on which was gray stone
with the words, "Theutobochus Rex
cut thereon. When the tomb was open
ed they found human skeleton en-
tire-twenty-five and half feet long, ten
feet wide across the shoulders, and five
back. His teeth were about the size each
of an ox's foot, and his shin-bone measured
four feet.
, Near Mezarino, in Sicily, in 1915, 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 Mazara,
in Sicily, a skeleton of a giant thirty feet
long was found in the year 1913, and an
other Of thirty-three feet high in 1850; and
. many curious persons have preserved sew
eral Of these gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near their city
two famous skeletons, one of thirtv-four
and the other of thirty-six feet high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, was found
a 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 Mace
,, donia September, 1851, 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 othe-
enormous animals.
Elephants bones may be shown for those
? of giants, but they never can impose ON
connoisSeurs.
, Whales, which by their immense bulk
are more proper to be substituted for the
largest giants, have neither arms or legs
and the head of that animal has not the
least resemblance to that of man. If il
be true, that great number of the gIgan-
tic bones which we have mentioned, have
been seen by anatomists, and have by them
been reputed real human bones, the exist
= ence of giants is proven.
A CHICAGO newspaper tells the follow.
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