St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-30
Mammoth Men.
SOME OF THE GIANTS MENTIONED IN
HISTORY.
New York ClinpeI


The Bible says I" there were giants il
those days." and it mentions sevcra
cases of giants, as the Replalms, the
and others.
Profane historians also mention giants
They gave seven feet of height to Her.
cnles, the first hero, and in our day VIC
have seen men eight feet high. The
giant who was shown in Rouen in 1S3l
measured eight feet some inches. Tho
Emperor Maximin was of that size
Shenkins and Ploterus, physicians OF
the last century, saw several of that
stature, and Goropius saw q girl who
was ten feet high.
The body of Orostcs, according to the
Greeks, was eleven and il half feet. The
| giant Calabro, brought from Arabia to
Rome, under Claudius Caesar, was
nearly ten feet, and the bones of Sc
condilla and Put1o, keepers of the gar
dens 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 Il half
feet; and Jacob Mairc, in his voyage
to the Straits of Magellan, reports that
Oh the seventeenth day of December,
| 1915, they found at Port Desire several
graves covered with stones, and having
the curiosity to remove the stones they
found human skeletons ten feet long,
| and some eleven feet.
(These seem to be well authenticated
eases, and there are others, some Of
which are incredibe.)
The Chavelicr Scory, in his voyage to
the peak of Tencrifte, says they found
in one OF the sepulchral caverns OF that
mountain the head of a Gaunche which
had eighty teeth, and that the body
was not less than fifteen feet long.
The giant Felrasus, who was slain
by Orlando, nephew of Charlcmange,
was eighteen feet high.
Rloand, a celebrated anatOmist, who
wrote in 1914, says that some years be-
OF st. Germain the tomb of the giant
ls0ret, who was twenty feet high.
january II, 1913, masons digging near
the ruins Of Il castle III Dauphinc, in a
field which by tradition has long been
called the Giants field, ut the depth OF
eighteen feet, discovered q brick tomb
thirty feet long, twelve feet wide and
eight high, on which was Il gray stone
with the words Theutobochus Rex"
engraved thereon. When the tomb was
opened they found human skeleton
entire, twenty-siy and IL quarter feet
high, eighteen feet wide across the
shoulders, and five feet deep from the
breast bone TO the back. His feet were
about the size of an ox's foot, and his
shln-bone measured four feet.
Near Mezarlna, i'll Sicily, 1915, was
found giant thirty feet high. His
head was the size of a hogslead (D and
each OF his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Mazara.
III Sicily, Il skeleton of a giant thirty
feet long was found i'll the year 1913,
and another thirty three feet high in
preserved several of these gigantic
bones.
The Atllenians found near their city
two falpous skeletons, one tl,irtv-four
and the other thirty ysix feet high.
. At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, was
found a skeleton, the head of which
could scarcely be encompassed by the
arms OF two men together, and whose
legs, which they still keep in the castle
OF that city, were twenty-siX feet long, |
The skull Of the giant found in Mace |
donia, September, 1691, held $40 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 !
wales or other enormous ami
mails. But elephants bones may be
shown for those of giants, but they
can, never. impose Oh connoisseurs.
Wales, by their immense bulk are more
to be substituted for the lars-
est giants, have neither arms nor legs,
and the head OF that animal has not
The least resemblance to that of Il man,
Ii it be true, therefore, that great
number OF the gigantic bones which we
have mentioned have been seen hy
and have by them been
'eputed real human bones, the existence
,f giants is proved.