Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-23
Giants.

| g1anIS, as Jno Ropna1mS, the AnakImS, the
Emims, the ZonzOnims, and others. Pro
fame historians also mention giants; they
gave seven feet of height to Hercules
their first hero, and in our days we have
seen men eight feet high. The giant who
was shown in Rouen in 1885 measured
eight feet some inches. The Emperor
Maximin was of that size; Skenkius 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 Claudius Caesar, was near
ten feet; and the bones of Secondilla and
Pufio, keepers of the gardens of Sallust,
were but six inches shorter.
| Funnam, ScOtchman, who lived in the
time of Eugene the Second, King of Scot
land measured eleven feet and half; and
Jacob le Marie, in his voyage to the
Straits of Magellan, reports that on the
18th of December, 1916, they found at
Port Desire several graves covered with
stones; and having the curiosity to remove
the stones, they discovered human skele-
tons 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 the body was not
less than fifteen feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando,
feet a;t high. Of 'Ahar'e'na a@nh was ei1hfeen
Rioland, celebrated anatomist, who
wrote in 1914 says that, some years be-
fore, there was to be seen in the suburbs
g a. h of orJn
Isoret, who was twenty feet high.
In Rouen, in 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the Dominicans, they found
stone tomb containing skeleton, whose
skull held bushel of corn, and whose
shin bone reached up to the girdle 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 plate of copper,
whereupon was engraved, "In this tomb
lies the noble and puissant lord, the Che
Waller Ricon de Vallemont, and his bones"
Platerus, famous physician, declares
that he saw at Lucerne the true human
bones of 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 frisco, with an
inscription showing that this giant was
twenty-five and half feet high, and that
his bones were found in 1705, 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 Dauphine,
in 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 Theutobochus Rex
cut theron. When the tomb was opened
they found human skeleton entire
twenty five feet and half long, ten feet
wide across the shoulders, and five feet
deep from the breast-bone to the back
His teeth were about the size each of an
ox's foot, and the shin-bone measured
four feet.
Near Mezarino, in Sicily, in 1916, was
found giant thirty feet high his heao
was the size of hogshead, and each o
his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Mazara
in Sicily, skeleton of a giant thirty fee
long was found in the year 1546, anc
another of thirty-three feet high in 1900
and many curious persons have preserved
several of these gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near their city
two famous skeletons, one of thirty-foul
and the other OF thirty-six feet high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, was founC
a skeleton, the head of which could scarct
be encompassed by the arms of two mel
together, and whose legs, which they still
keep in the castle of that city, were TWEEN
ty-six feet long.
The skull of the giant found in Mace
donia, September, 1901, held 80 pound
of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, wh,
treated this matter very learnedly, doe
not doubt these facts, but thinks the bone
were those of elephants, whales, or othe
enormous animals.
Elephants bones may be shown TO
| those of giants, but they can never impos
r on connoisseurs.
I Whales, which by their immense bull
, are more proper to be substituted for th
! largest giants, have neither arms nor legs
and the head of that animal has not tn
least resemblance to that of man. If
!. be true, therefore, that great number {
n the gigantic bones which we have mer
/ toned have been seen by anatomists, an
3 have by them been reputed real huma
E bones, the existence of giants is proves
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