Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-29
what Size Were Mankind Once /:

The Bible says "there were giants in
those days." and it mentions several
cases of giants, as the Rephaims, the
Anakims, the Emims, the Zonzonims
and others. The San Francisco Chroa.
icle says:
Profane historians also mention
giants; they gave seven feet of height
to Hercules, 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;
Shenkins and Plsterus, physicians of
the last century, saw several of that
stature, and Goropius saw girl who
was ten feet high.
The body of Orestes, according to
the Greeks, was III feet (Which is
doubtless untrue). The giant Gslbara,
brought from Arabia to Rome under
Clsudius Caesar, was near ten feet; and
the bones of Secondilla and Pufio, keep
ers of the garden of Sallust, were but
six inches shorter.
Funnnm, Scotchman, who lived at
the time of Eugene the Second, King of
Scotland, measured LII feet; and Jacob
le Maire, 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 re-
move the stones, they found human
skeletons ten and eleven feet long.
These seem to be well-authenticated
cases, and there are others, some of
which are Incredible.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriffe, says they found
in one of the sepulchral caverns of that
mountain the head of Gaunche which
had eighty teeth, and that 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 1914, says some years before
there was to be seen in the suburbs of
st. Germain the tomb of the giant Iso-
ret, who was twenty feet high.
January IL, 1913, masons, digging
near the ruins of a castle in Dauphin,
in a field which by tradition had long
been called the Giants field, at the
depth of eighteen feet discovered
brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet
wide and eight feet high, on which was
a gray stone, with the words "Theuto-
bochus Rex" engraven thereon. When
the tomb was opened they found a
human skeleton entire, 25a feet high,
10 feet wide across the shoulders, and
feet deep from the breast-bone to the
back. His feet were about the size
each of an ox's foot, and his shin-bone
measured four feet.
Near Mezarina, in Sicily, 1915, was
found giant thirty feet high. His
head was the size of hogshead (O and
each of his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Ma
zara, in Sicily, skeleton Of q giant
thirty feet long was found in the year
154S, and another of thirty-three feet
high in 1850; and many curious persons
have preserved several of these gigantic
bones.
The Athenians found near that city
two famous skeletons, one of thirty
four and the other of thirty-si1 feet
high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, was
found skeleton, the head OF which
could scarce be encompassed by arms
of two men together, and whose legs,
which they still keep in the castle of
that city, we're twenty-six feet long.
The skull of giant found in Mace
donia September, 1851. held 2lO 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 elephants, whales
or other enormous animals. But ele-
plants bones may be shown for those
of giants, but they can never impose
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 man. If it be
true, therefore, that great number of
the gigantic bones which We have men-
toned have been seen by anatomists,
and have by them been reputed real
human bones, the existence of giants is
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