The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-16
Giants.

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Profane historians also mention giants
they gave seven feet of height to Her
cules, 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 Platerua, physicians of
the last century, saw several of that
stature, and Goropius saw a girl who
was ten feet high.
The body of Orestes, according to
the Greeks, was liz feet the giant Gal
bara, brought from Arabia to Rome un-
der Claudins Caesar, was neal 10 feet /;
and the bones of Secondillo and Pufo,
keepers of the gardens of Sallust, were
but six inches shorter.
Funnan, a Scotchman, who lived at
the time of Eugene the second, king of
Scotland, measured III feet /; and ia
cob lie Marie, in his voyage the to
Straits of Magellan, reports that on the
18th day of December, 1915, they found
at Port Desire several graves covered
with stones and having the curiosity
to remove the stones, they discovered
human skeletons of 10 and IL feet long.
The Chivalier Scory, in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriffe, says that they
found in one of the sephulchral caverns
of that mountain the head of q Gaun-
che, which had eighty teeth, and that
the body was not less than fifteen feet
long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlan-
do, nephew of Charlemagne, was eigh-
teen feet high.
Rioland, a celebrated anatomist, who
wrote in 1912, says that some years be-
fore 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
a stone tomb containing a skeleton,
whose skull held a bushel of corn, and
whose shin. bone reached up to the CIR
die of the tallest ma there, being
about four feet long, and consequently
the body must have been II or Is feet
high. Upon the tomb was a plate of
copper, whereupon was engraved, "In
this tomb lies the noble and puissant
lord, the Chevalier de Vallemont, and
his bones" Platerus, a famous physi-
clan, declares that he saw at Lucerne
the true human bones of a subject
which must have been at least 10 feet
high.
Valence, in Dauphine, boasts of pos
sessing the bones of the giant Bucart,
tyrant of the Vivarais, who waI slain
by an arrow by the Count de Cabillon,
his vassal. The Dominicans had a part
of the shiE-bone, with the articulation
of the knee, and his figure painted in
fresco, with an inscription showing that
this great giant was 229 feet high, and
that his bones we're found in 1705 near
the banks of the Morderi, a little river
at the foot of the mountain Crussol,
upon which, tradition says, the giant
dwelt.
January II, 1913, some masons, dig
cling heal the ruins of a castle in Dau-
phine, in a field which by tradition had
long been called the Giants Field, at
the depth of 1S feet discovered a brick
tomb 80 feet long, II feet wide and s
feet high, on which was a gray stone,
with the words Theutobochus Rex cut
thereon. When the tomb was opened
they found a human skeleton entire,
254 feet long, 10 feet wide across the
shoulders, and 5 feet deep from the
about the size of an ox's foot, and his
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Near Mezarino, in Sicily, 1916, was
found a giant 80 feet high /; his head
was the size of a hogshead, and each of
his teeth weighed five ounces
Near Palermo, in the valley of Ma
cara, in Sicily, a skeleton of a giant 80
feet long was found in the year 1543,
and many curious persons have pre-
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The Athenians found near their city
two famous skeletons, one of "a and the
other IS feet high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 758, was found
a skeleton, the head of which could
scarce be encompassed in the arms of
two men together, and his legs, which
they still keep in the castle of that city
was 26 feet long.
The skull of the giant found in Mace
donia, September, 1871, held 10 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 elephats, whales,
or other enormous animals.
Elephants bones may be shown for
those of giants, but they can never i'm
pose on connOisseurs.
Whales, which by their immens bulk
are more 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. If it be, therefore, that a great
number of the gigantic bones which We
nave mentioned have been seen by an
atomists, and have by them been reput-
ed real human bones, the existence of
giants is proved.