The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-06
MISCELLANY.
GIANTS.
Some VeritabIo Specimens of Mon
Str0us Men.

Some VeritabIo Specimens of Mon.
str0us Men.
The Bible mentions several races oil
giants, as the RephaiIs, Anakins, and
Emims, the Zonzonims, and o.hrs.-
Profane history always mentions giants;
they gave seven fee: O. heiga 20 Ee-cU-
les, their first hero, and il ou- days we
have seen men eight feet high. The gi-
ant who was showl in Rouen in 1885
measured eight fee: some inches. The
Emperor Maximin vas of tnat size;
Skenkirs and Platerus, physicians of
the last century, saw several of shat
stature and Grophius saw a 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 20
Rome under Clad;us Cesar, was nea-
ten feet; and the bones of Secondilla and
Pufio, keepers Of the gardens of Sallust,
were bu3 six inches shorter
Funnam, = Scotchman, who lived in
the time of Eugene the Second, King OF
Scotland, measured eleven feet and a
half; and Jacob le Naire, in his voyage
to the Straits of Magellan, reports
that OIL the 18th Of December, 1915,
they found AZ Port Desire Sc yeraI graves
covered with stones; and having the Gu
riosity % remove the stones they discov-
cred human skeletons ot zen and eleven
feet long.
The Cheva ;e- Scory, in i'a voyage
to the Peak of Tene.iffe, says h;- hey
found in one of ,ne sepulchral cGve-2s
of that mountain The head OF Ga, ncae,
which lad eighty ee.h, and Eat ne
body was not less than fifteen iees loag
The giant Fer-agus, slain b, O-lando,
nephew of Cha-lemagne, was eignteea
feet high.
R;oland, a celeh-a.ed aratomis,, Who
wrote in 1914, says that, some Yeas be-
fore, there was to be seen IN the suburbs
of ST. Germain the tomb of the giant
Isoret, who was twenty feet high.
In Rouen, m 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the Dominicans, they found
stone tomb containing a skeleton,
whose skull held a bushel of corn, and
whose sn n tone reached up to the tall
est man there, being about ioG' feet long
and consequently the body must nave
been seventeen o. eighteen feet high
Upon the tomb was a plate OF copper,
wkereon was engraved, ''In his tomb
lies TIE noble and prissant lozd, the
Chevalie., R:con de Vallemont, and his
bones" Pla,erus, a famous physician
declares taat he saw at Lucer1e the
true human bones OF subject which
must have been at least nineteen feet
high.
Valance in Dauphin boasts of posses
sing the bones OF the giant Bucart, ~
ant of the Vivarais, who was slain By
an arrow by the Count de Cabillon, his
vassal. The Dominicans had part of
the shin bone, with tine articulation
of the knee, and his figure painted N
fresco, with an inscription showing that
this giant was twenty-five fees ard a half
high, and that his bones were found in
1850 near the banks of Moderi, little
river at the foot Of the mountain of Cru
sol, upon which, tradition says, the gi-
ant dwelt.
January IL, 1913, some masons dig
ging near the ruins of castle in Dau-
phine, in field which by tradition had
been long called the Giants Field, at
the depth of eighteen feet discovered a
brick tosib thirty feet long, twelve feet
wide, and eight feet high, on which was
a gray stone, with the words Theutobo-
chus Rex cut thereon. When The tomb
was opened they found a human skeleton
entire-twenty-fye feet and half long,
ten feet wide across the shoulders, and
five feet deep from the breast bone of
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, in 1916, was
found a giant thirty feet high; his head
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 so
feet long was found in the year 1548,
and another thirty three feet high in
1850, and many curious persons have
preserved several of these gigantic bones.
The Anthenians found near their city
two famous skeletonsn one of 81 and the
other of SO feet high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, 758, 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 scull of the giant found in Mac
edonia, SeptembeI, 1861, held 21(
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 fol
those of giants, but they never can i'm
pose on connoisseurs.
Whales, which by their immense bull
are more proper to be substituted fol
the largest giants, have neither arms no
legs, and the head of that animal ha
not the least resemblance to that of man
1t it be true, therefore, that great mum
Der of the gigantic bones which we hav'
mentioned have been seen by anatomists
and have by them been reputed real hu
man bones, the existance of giants i
proved.
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