Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-02-21
4 CHAPTER ON GIANTS.


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 1875, measured
eight feet and some inches. The Emper-
or MaXimin was Of that size Skenkius
and Platerus, physicians of the last CEN
tury, saw several Of that stature and
Goroplus also tells us that he saw a girl
ten feet high.
The body of Orestes, according to the
Greeks, was eleven feet and half. The
giant Gabara, brought from Arabia to
Rome, under CIaudius Caesar, was near
ten feet and the bones of Secondilla
and Pufo, keepers Of the gardens Of Sal
lust, were only six inches shorter.
Funnam, II Scotsman, who lived in the
time Of Eugene the Second, King OF
Scotland, measured eleven feet and n
half, and Jacob lie Marie, in his voyage
to the Straits of Magellan, reports that,
on the 18th of December, l6l5, they
found at Port Desire, several graves coy
cred with stones, and having the curosi-
ty to remove the stones they discovered
human skeletons Of ten and eleven feet
long.
The Chevaler Scory, in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriile, says that they
found, in one of the sepulchral cavcrus of
that mountain, the head of Guanche,
with eighty teeth, and the body was not
less than fifteen feet high.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando,
the nephew Of Charlemagne, was eight
cen feet high.
Roland, II celebrated anatomist, who
wrote in 1911, says that some years be-
fore, there was to be seen in the suburbs
OF st. German the tomb of the giant Iso-
ret, who was twenty feet high.
In Roucn, in 1900, in digging in the
bitches near the Domnicans, they found
stone tomb containing skeleton, whose
skull held Il bushel of corn, and whose
shln-bone reached up to the girtle of the
tallest man there, being about four feet
long, and consequently tho body must
have been seventeen or eighteen feet high.
Upon the tomb was plato Of copper,
whereon was engraved, "ln this tomb
lies the noble and puissaut Lord, the
Chevalc: Ricon de Valemont and his
bones" Platerus, famous physician,
declares that ho saw at Lucene the true
human bones Of subject, which must
been at least nineteen feet long,
Valance, in Dauphino boasts Of having
the bones oftho giant Bucart, tyrant Of
the Nivarias, who was slain by an arrow
by the Count de Cabllon, his vassal.-
The Dominicans had part of the shin
bone, with the articulation of the knoe,
and his figure painted in fresco, with an
inscription showing that this giant was
twenty-five feet and half high, and that
his bones were found in 1908, near the
banks Of the Moderi, little river at the
foot Of the mountain of Crussol, upon
which, tradition says, the giant dwct.
In lSl6, some masons digging near the
ruins Of Il castle in Dauphine, in n field
which, by tradition, had long been called
the Giants Field, at the depth Of eight
cen feet discovered brick tomb, thirty
feet long, twelve feet wide and eight feet
high, upon which was gray stone with
the words Theutobochus Rex cut there
on. When the tomb was opened they
found a human skeleton entire, twenty
five feet and half long, ten feet across
the shoulders, and five feet deep from the
breast bone to the back. His teeth were
about the size Of an ox's hoof, and his
shin bone measured four feet.
Near Mezarino, in Sicily, in 1916 was
found giant thirty feet high, his head
was the size of u hogshead, and each of
his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Maza-
IA, in Sicily, a skeleton Of giant, thirty
feet long was found in the year 1913, and
another Of thirty three feet high, in 1850,
and many curious persons have observed
several Of these gigantic bones.
The Athenians found, near their city,
two famous skeletons, one Of thirty -four,
the other OF thirty-six feet.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 7jS, was found
skeleton, the skull 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 over
twcnty-six feet long.
The skull Of the giant found in Mace
donia, in 1851, held two hundred and ten
pounds Of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who
treated this matter very lcarnedly, does
not deny these facts, but thinks that the
bones were those Of elephants, whales, or
some other enormous animal.
Elephants bones may be shown for
those OF giants, but they can never i'm
pose on conni-seurs.
Whales, which by their immense bulk,
are wore proper to be substituted for the
largest giants, have neither arms nor
legs ; and the head Of that animal has
not the least resemblance to that Of a
man. lit be true therefore, that the
great number Of gigantic bones which
we have mentioned have been seen by
anatomists, and have been reputed real
human bones, the existence OF giants i,
clearly proven.
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