The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-22
Giants.

Giants.
The bible mentions several cases of
giants, as the Rephaims, the Anakins,
the Emims, the Zonzonims, and others.
Profane historians also mention giants I;
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 aud Plst~rua, 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 IL feet the giant Gal
bara, brought from Arabia to Rome un-
der Claudins Caesar, was near 10 feet !;
and the bones of Secondillo and Pufio,
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 Ja-
cob le Maire, 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 II feet long.
The Chiyalier Scory, in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriffe, says that they
found in one of the sephulchral caverns
che, which had eighty teeth, and that
long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlan-
do, nephew of Charlemagne, was eigh-
teen feet high.
Rioland, 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 bushel of corn, and
whose shin bone reached up to the gir-
die of the tallest ma there, being
about four feet long, and consequently
the body must have been II or 1S feet
high. Upon the tomb was plate of
copper, whereupon was engraved, In
this tomb lies the noble and puissant
lord, the Ohevalier de Yallemont, 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 wa7 slain
by an arrow by the Count de Cabillon,
his vassal. The Dominicans had part
of the shir-bone, with the articulation
.e -
fresGo, with an inscription showing that
this great giant was 22l feet high, and
that his bones were found In 1705 near
at the foot of the mountain Crussol,
upon which, tradition says, the giant
dWelt.
January IL, 1913, some masons, dig
ging near the ruins of castle in Dau-
phine, in a field which by tradition had
long been called the Giants Field, at
the depth of 18 feet discovered brick
tomb 80 feet long, u feet wide and 8
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,
25@ feet long, 10 feet wide across the
shoulders, and 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 four feet.
Near Mezarino, in Sicily. 1916, was
found a giant 80 feet high his head
was the size of hogshead, and each of
his teeth weighed five ouuoes.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Ma
cara, in Sicily, a skeleton of a giant 80
feet long was found in the year I543,
and another of 33 feet high in 1850;
and many curious persons have pre-
served several of these gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near their city
two famous skeletons, one of 81 and the
other SO feet high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, 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 90 pounds
of corn.
The celebrated Sir HaEs Sloane, who
treated this matter very learnedly, does
not doubt these facts, but thinks the
bones we're 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 immense 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 great
number of the gigantic bones which We
have mentioned have been seen by an
atomists, and have by them been -reput-
ed real human bones, the existence of
giants is proved.