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Ah0ut Giants.

The Bible mentions several races of
giants, as the Rephiams, the Ana
Kims, the Emims, the Zononims, and
others. The body Of Orestes, accord
ing to the Greeks, was eleven feet and
half; the giant Gslbara, brought
from Arabia to Rome, under Claudi-
US Caesar, was nearly ten feet; and
the bones of SecOndilla and Pufio,
keepers of the gardens Of Sallust, were
but six inches shorter Funnam, 3
Scotsman, who lived in the time Of
Eugene, of Scotland, measured elev-
en- feet and one half; and Jacob lie
Marie, in his voyage to the Straits OF
Magellan, reports that on the 18th OF
December, 1915, they found at Port
Desire several graves covered with
stones; and having tine curiosity to
remove the stones, they discovered
human skeletons of ten or eleven feet
long. The Chevalier Scory, in his
voyage to the Peak of Teneriffe, SAYS
that they found in one of the sepul-
cIral caYerns of that mountain, the
head of a Gaunche which had eighty
teeth, and that the body was not less
than fifteen feet. The giant Ferra-
gus, slain by Orlando, nephew of
Charlemain, was eighteen feet high.
Rioland, celebrated anatOmist, VINO
wrote in 1914, says that there was
to be seen in the suburbs OF st.
German the tomb of the giant Isoret,
who was twenty feet high. In Rouen,
in 1909, in digging in the bitches near
the DOminicans, they found q stone
tomb containing q skeleton whose
skull held q bushel of corn, and
whose shinbone reached up to the
girdle Of the tallest man there, being
about four feet long, and consequent
ly the body must have been seven
teen or eighteen feet high. Upon the
tomb was plate Of copper, whereOn
was engraved, sin this tomb lies the
noble and puissant Lord, the Cheva-
lier RicOn de VallemOnt, aud his
bones" Platerus, a famous physi-
clan, declares that he saw at Lucerne
the true human bones of q subject that
must have been at least nineteen feet
high. Valence, in Dauphine, boasts
of possessing the bones OF the giant
Ucart, ,tyrant of the Vivarais, who was
slain by an arrow bv 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 in
scriptiOn showing that this giant was
twenty-five feet and half high, and
that his bones were found in l705,
near the banks OF the MOrderi, y little
river at the foot Of the mountain Of
Crussol, upon which, tradition says,
the giant dwelt. Jan. IL, 1913, nome
masOns digging near the ruins OF q
castle in Dauphine, in field which,
by tradition, had long been called the
Giants Field, at the depth OF eighteen
feet discovered q brick tomb, thiI-
ty feet long, twelve feet wide,
and eight feet high, On which was
a grey stone, with the words TheutObo-
chus Rex cJt thereon. When the
tomb wss opened they found q human
skeleton entire, twenty-five and q half
feet long, ten feet wide across the
shoulders, and five feet deep from the
breastbOne to the back. His teeth
were about the size each of an ox's
foot, and his shinbOne measured four
feet. Near MeZarino, in Sicily, in
1916, was found q giant thirty feet
high; his head was the size of hogs
head, and each OF his teeth weighed
i've OluCCS. ANCaA L olCA ulOg III Tue
valley Of MaZara, in Sicily, skeleton
of a giant, thirty feet long, was found
in the year I54S; and another ofthirty-
three feet high in 1850; and many Gu
rions persons nave preserved several
Of these gigantic bones. The Athen-
lans found, near their city, two IA
nous skeletons, one OF thirty-fOur,
and the other Of thirty-six feet high.
At Tortu, 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 the city, were twenty-six feet
long. The skull of the giant found in
Macedonia, September, 1891, held 21O
pounds Of corn. The celebrated Sir
Hans Sloane, who treated this matter
very lesrnedly, does not doubt these
facts, but thinks the bones were those
of elephants, whales, or other enor-
nous animals. Elephant bones may
be shown for those Of giants, but they
can meyer impose on connoisseurs.