The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-02-07
GIANTS.

we have seen men eight feet high.
The giant who was shown in Rouen
in 1885 measured eight feet some inch
es. The Emperor Maximin. was Of
that size; Skenkins and Platems.
physicians Of tile last century, saw
several oftllat stature; and Goropius
saw a girl who was ten feet high.
| The body Of Oeestes. according to
the Greeks, was eleven feet and a-half;
and the giant GalbaEk brought from
| AEabia to Rome under Clahdius Caesar,
was near ten feet; and the bones of
Seeondila and PHO. keepers of the
garlens of Sallast, were but six inches
shorter.
Fnnnom, a Scotchman. who lived
in the time Of Eugene the Second,
King Of Scotland, measured eleven
feet and half; and Jacob le Maire.
in his voyage to the Straits of Magel-
Ian. reports that OH the 18th of Dec,
1915, they found at Port Desire sew
enl graves covered with stones; aud
having the curiosity to remove the
stones. they discovered human skelc-
tons of ten and eleven feet long.
The Chevelier Senrp, in .his voyage
to the Peak of Tenerifle, says that
they found in a sepulchml cavern
Of that mountain the head of a
Gaunche, WHICH had eighty teeth, and
the body was not less than ten feet
long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlan-
do, nephew Of Clarlemagne, was
eighteen feet high.
Rioland, a celebrated anatomiSt who
wrote in 1914, says that, some years
before, 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 stone tomb containing skel-
eton, whose skull held la bushel of corn.
and whose shin-bone reached up to the
girdle Of the tallest man there. Icing
about four feet long. and consequently
the body lnnSt have been seventeen or
eighteen feet high. Upon the tomb was
u plate of copper, whereon was en-
graved: "In this tomb lies the noble
and pnisSant lord the Chevalier Ricon
Ge Nalemont, and his bones.
Platerus. a famous physician, de-
clalts that he saw at LUcerne the true
human bones Of a subject that must
have been ut least nineteen feet high.
Valence in Dauphene boasts of pos
sesSing the bones Of the giant Bucart,
tyrant of the NivaraiS. who was slain
by an arrow by the Count de Cabillml,
his vasSai. The Dominicans had Il
part OF the shin-bone. with the artcu-
lation of the knee, and his figure
PARTED in fresco, with an inscription
showing that this giant was twenty
two feet and 4 half high. and that his
bones We're found in 1905. near the
banks Of the Moiyleri, li.tle river at
the foot OF the mountain Of Cnlssol.
upon which tradition says, the giant
dWelt.
January llth, 1913, some masons
digging near the ruins OF a castle in
Daupline, in field. which tradition
had long been called the Giants Field,
at the depth of eighteen feet discov-
cred brick tomb thirty feet long, aud |
twelve feet wide, aud eight feet high. |
on which was gray stone, with the
words Theutobochns Rex cut thereon.
When the tomb was opened they |
found a human skeleton entile-twen- |
ty five feet long. ten feet wide across
the shoulders, and five feet deep from
the breast bone to the back. His teeth
were about the size Of an oX's foot,
and his shin-bone measured over four
feet.
Near Mezarino. in Siscily, in 1916, /
was found giant thirty 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, u skeleton Of = giant
thirty fpet,long was found in the year
lj4S, and another OF thirty-three feet
long in 1870; 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 high.
At Totu. in Bohemia. 75S. was
found a skeleton. the head 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 thenty-six feet IN
length.
The skull ofa giant found in Mace
ionia. September, 1891, held 200
pounds of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane.
who treated this matter very leaFnedly,
loes not doubt these facts but thinks
The bones were those Of elephants,