The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-01
WHAT SIZE WERE MANkISD 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 ChrOBi-
Gle says:
Profane historians also mention giants
they gave seven feet Of height to Hercules,
their first hero and in our day we have seen
men eight feet high. The giant who was
shown in ROuen, in 1886, measured eight feet
some inches. The Emperor MaXimn was of
that size Skenkins and PlateruS, physicians
of the last century, saw several of that stat
uTe and GoropiOuS saw girl who was ten
feet high.
The body of Orostes, according to the
Greeks, was 11J1 feet (Which is doubtless
lie). The giant GalabrO, brought from Ara
bia to Rome under ClaUdius Caesar, was near
ten feet and the bones of Secondilla and
PufiO, keepers of the gardens Of SalluSt, were
but six inches shorter.
Fanum, a Scotchman, who lived at the
time of Eugene the Second, King of Scotland,
measured 11lz feet; and JacOble MaiTe in
his voyage to the Straits of Magellan, reports
that on the 18th day of December, 1913, they
found at Port Desire several graves covered
with stones, and having the curiosity to re-
move the stones, they found human Skele-
tons ten and some eleven feet long.
I ITheSe seem to be well authenticated cases,
and there are others, some OF which are in
/ The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the
+ Peak of Teneriffe, says they found in one of
I the sepulchral caVerns of that mountain the
/ head OF a Gaunche which had eighty teeth
/ and that the body was not less than 10 feet
I long.
The giant Ferragus, who was slain by Or
/ lando, nephew Of Charlemagne, was Is feet
/ high.
RiOland, a celebrated anstomist, who
1 wrote in 1G14, says that some years before
. there was to be seen in the suburbs of st.
. GeTmain, the tomb of the giant Isoret, who
, was 20 feet high.
January Il, 1913, masons, digging near the
( ruins of a castle in Dauphine, in a field which
/ by tradition had long been called the Giants
field, at the depth OF eighteen feet, discovered
a brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet
wide and eight feet high, on which was a
gray stone, with the words, "TheutObOchuS
Rex engraved thereon. When the tomb
was opened they found a human skeleton
entire, 26L feet high, Is feet wide across the
shoulders, and feet deep from the breast
bone to the back. His feet We're about the
size of an oX's foot, and his shin-bOne meas
ured four feet.
Near Mezarina, in Sicily, 1910, was found
a giant thirty feet high His head was the
size of a hOgshead, CD and each of his teeth
weighed five ounces.
+ Near Palermo. in the valley OF Nazara. in
Sicily, a skeleton of a giant 30 feet long was
found in the year 1913 and another 55 feet
. long in 1850; and many curious persons have
preserved several of these gigantic bones.
The Atheniaus found near their city tive
[ 30 feet high
At Totu. in Bohemia, in 75S, was found {
skeleton, the head of which could scarce b,
+ encOmpaSsed by arms of two men together
. and whose legs which they still keep in th'
castle of that city, were % feet long
- The skull of the giant found I'M Macedonia
September, 1921, held 2IO pounds of corn
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who treated
this matter very lcarnedly, does not doub
(, these facts, but thinks the bones were thos
/ OF elephants. whales or other enormous ami
mails. Elephants bones may be shown fo
] those of giants, it is true, hut they can neve
5 impose on conuoiSseurS. Whales, which b,
2 their immense bulk are more proper to b
. substituted for the largest giants, have neith
er arms nor legs and the head of that ami
| nal has not the least resemblance to that O
l q man. If it be true, therefore, that a gTca
number of the gigantic bones which we hav
$ mentioned have been seen by auatOmiSts
and have by them been TepUted real huma
I . bones the existence of giants is proved.