Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-01-29
GIANTS,

lie BiDle mentions several races oil
giants, AS the Rephaims, the Anakins,
the Euin,s, the Zonzonims, and others.
PrOfane history also mentiOus 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
1875, 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 Gsropius saw girl who
was ten feet high.
The boy of Orestes, according to the
Greeks, was eleven feet and a half; the
giant Gdlbara, brought from Arabia to
Rome, under Ciaudius Caesar, was near
ten feet; and the bones of Secondilla
and PuftiO, keepers of the gardens OF
Sallust, were but six inches shci ter.
FunnauI, IL Scotsman, who liv I'd in
the time of Eugene the Second, King
of Scotland, measured eleven feet and a
half; and Jacob lie Marie, in his voyage
to the Straits of Magellan, reports that
on the 18th of December, 1915, they
found at Point Desire several graves
covered with stones; and having the
curiosity to remove the stones, they
discovered human skeletons of ten and
eleven feet long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his Voyage
to the Peak of Teneritfe, says that the Y
found, in one of the sepulchral caverns
Gaunche, which had eighty teeth, and
the body was not less than fifteen feet
long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando,
nephew OF Charlemagne, was eighteen
feet high.
Rioland, celebrated anatomist, who
wrote in 1Gl4, says that, some years
before, there was to he seen in the
suburbs of st. Germain the tomb of the
giaiit Isoret,' who was twenty feet high.
In Rouen. in 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the DOninicans, they
found stone tomb. containing a skele-
ton whose slun held a 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 1eet high. Upon the tomb
was plate of COPPER, whereOn was en-
graved: "In this tomb lies the noble
and puisSant Lord, the Chevalier Ricon
de and his bones" Patterns
a famous physician, declares that he
saw at Lucernc the true human bones
of subject which must have been at
least nineteen feet high.
Valance, in DduphIne, bOaStS of pos
Sessing the bones of the giant Bucart,
tyrant of the Vivarais, who was slain
by arrow, 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
fresco, 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 |
of Crussol, upon which, tra-
dition says, the giant dwelt.
January IL, 1913, some masons dig |
eing near the ruins of a castle in |
Dauphine, in field which. by tradi-
tion, had long been called the Giants |
Field, at the depth of eighteen feet |
a brick tomb, thirty feet |
long, twelve feet wide, and eight feet |
high, on which was gray stone, with
the words "Theutobochu Rex" cut |
thereon. When the tomb was opened,
they found human skeleton entire, |
twenty-five and a half feet long, ten J
feet across the shoulders, and five feet |
deep from the breastbone to the back. I
His teeth were about the size of an Ox's |
hoof, and his shin-bone measured four
feet.
Near Mezarino, in Sicily, in 1516, was
found a giant, thirty feet high; his
head was the size OF a hogshead, and /
each nf his teeth weighed five ounces. /
Near Palermo, in the valley of Ma
zaia, in Sicily, skeleton of a giant,
thirty feet long, was found In the year
1913; and another of thirty-three feet |
high, in 1850; and many curious per-
sons have preserved several of these
gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near their city,
two famous skeletons, one of thirty !;
four, and the other of thirty-six feet.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, was
found a skeleton, the head of which |
could scarce be encompassed by the
arms of two men together, aud whose
legs, which they still keep in the castle !
Of that city, were 26 feet long.
The skull of the giant found in Mace /
donia, September, 1851, held 2l0 rounds !
of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who !
treated this matter very learnedly, does J
not doubt these facts, but thinks the
bones were those of elephants, whales,
or other enormous animals.
/, Elephants bones may be shown for |
those of giants, but they never can i'm
pose on COnnoisseurs.
Whales, which by their immense