Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-20
GIANTS.

Some of Them, Ancient and Modern
The Bible mentions several cases Of
giants. as the Rephaims the AnakIms,
the Emims. the Zonzonims, and others.
Profane historians also mention giants;
theyraye seven feet Of height to Her
cuIes, 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;
Skeakins and Platerus, physicians OF
the lest century, saw several of that
stature. and Gorcpins saw aglrlwho was
IO.feet high.
The body of OIestes, according to the
Greeks, was II! feet; the giant Galbara,
brought from Arabia TO Rome under
Claudius Caesar, was near 10 feet; and
the bones Of Secondilla and Putio, keep
ers of the gardens of Sallust, were but
six inches shorter.
Funnam. 4 ScOtchman, who lived at
the time of Eugene the Second, king
of Scotland. measured liz feet: and
Jacob lie Marie, IN his voyage to the
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 III feet long.
The Cheyalier Scory, in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriffe, says that they
found in one Of the sephulchral caverns
of that mountain theheadOf Gaunche,
ar,1 the hgHU
not less than Is feet long.
The giant Ferragus, SLAIN by Orlando,
nephew of Charlemagne, was Is feet
high.
Roland, a celebrated anatOmist, who
wrote in 1914, says that, some years
before. there was to be seen IN the su-
burbs of St. German the tomb Of the
oiant Isoret. who was 20 feet high,
In Rouen, in 1909, IN digging in the
bitches nearthe Dominicans, they found
n stone tomb containing a skeleton,
whose skull held bushel of corn, and
whose shin-bone reached up to the glrdle
of the tallest man there, beng about
four feet long, and consequently the
bodv must have been IL or Is feet high.
Up6n the tomb was a plate of copper,
wbereon was engraved, I'm this tomb
lies the noble and puissant lord, the
CbnvaIiar RicOn de Vallemont, and his
homes Platerus, famous physician,
declares that hesawat Lucerne the true
human bones of. 4 subject which must
have been atIeast 10 feet high.
Valence. in Dauphine, boasts OF pos
sessing the bones Of the giant Bucart,
tvrant of the Viyarais, who was siam
bvan arrowby the Count de Cablllon, hls
vassal The Dominicans had part OF
of the shin-bone, with the articulation
Of the knee, and his figure painted IN
fresco. with an inscription showing that
tbis oiaut was 22L feet high. and that
his bones were found in 17O5 near the
banks of the Morderi, a little riVer.at
the foot of the mountain OF Crussoi,
ucon which, tradition says, the giant
dwelt. >.
Ian. II. 1913. SOME masOns digging
near the ruins Of castle in Dauphlne,
in a field which by tradition had long
been called the Giant field. at the depth
Of Is feet discovered brick tomb 80
feet long, Il feet wide, and eight feet
high, on which was n gray stone, with
the words Theutobochus Rex cut there
| ON. When the tomb was opened they
| found 4 human skeleton entlre-254
feet long, 10 feet widea across the should
ers, and five feet deep from the breast