The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-12-25
Mammoth Mon.

iroianc histor ans mention giants; they
gave seven feet Of height to Hercules, the
| first hero, and i'll our day we have seen men
eight feet high. The giant who was shown
III Koucn in 1885 measured eight feet some
| inches. The Emperor Maximin was Of
that size; Shcnkins and Poterus physicians
| OF that stature, and Goropius saw a girl
who was ten feet high. The body of Or
ostcs, according to the Greeks, was elevcn
and half feet. The giant Calabro, brought
from Arabia to Rome, under Claudius
Cesar, was nearly ten feet, and the bones
of Secondlla and Puflo. keepers of the
gardens OF Sallust, were but six inches
shorter. Farnum, a Scotchman, who lived
at the time Of Eugene the Second, King Of
Scotland, measured eleven and half feet;
and Jacob Mairc, in his voyage to the Straits
OF Magellan, reports that on the 18th day
OF December, 1915, they found at Port De-
sire several graves covered with stones, and
having the curiosity to remove the stones
they found human skeletons ten feet long,
and some eleven feet.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the
leak OF Teneriife, says they found in ono Of
the scpulchral caverns Of that mountain, the
head of Gaunchc which had eighty teeth,
and that the body was not less than fifteen
feet long The giant Fcrragus, who was
slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemange,
was eighteen feet high. Rioland, cele.
bratcd anatonist, 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 Isorct, who wns twenty feet high.
January II, 1918, masons digging near the
ruins Of castle Ill Dauphnc in field
which by tradition had long been called the
Glants's field, ut the depth Of eighteen feet,
discovered brick tomb thirty feet long,
twelve feet wide and eight high, on which
was gray stone with the words "Theuto-
bochus Rex" Engraved thereon. When the
tomb was opened they found a human
skeleton entire, twenty six and u quarter
feet high, eighteen feet around across the
shoulders and five feet deep from the breast
hone to tho back. His feet were about the
size of all ox's foot, and his Shin bone meas
urcd four feet.
Near Mczarina, In Sicily, 1916, was found
giant thirty feet high. His head was the
size of hogshead (2) and cach of his teeth
weighed five ounces. Near Palermo, in the
valley of Mazaro, in Sicily, a skeleton of
ginnt thirty feet long was found 1t the year
1913, and another thirty three feet high in
1850; and many curious persons have pre-
served several of these gigantic bones. The
Athcnians found near their city two famous
skeletons, one thirty four and the other
thirty-six feet high. At Totu, in Bohemia,
In l75S, was found skeleton the head OF
which could scarcely be cncompassed by the
arms Of two men together, and whose leg,
which they still keep in the castle of that
city, were twcnty-six feet long The skull
of the giant found in Macedonia, September,
1901 held two hundred and ten pounds of
corn. Tho celebrated Sir Hans Sloane,
who treated this matter very learnedly,
docs not double these facts, but thinks the
other enormous tns'G anmls Pitt wR2aSAh
bones may be shown for those of giants,
but they can never impose on connoisscurs.
Whales, which by their immense bulk are
moro properly to he substituted for tho
largest giants, have neither arms or legs;
and the head OF that animal has not the
least resemblance to that of man. II IL
be true, therefore, that great number Of
gigantic bones which have been mentioned
have been seen by anatomists, and have
by them been rcputcd real human bones,
the cxistance of giants Is proved.