The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-10-14
MAMMOTH MEN.

The Bible says there were giants 10
those dsys,' and it mentions several
cases Of eiants-as the Rephsims, the
the Emitns. the Zonzonims.
and others. Profanc historians also
mention giants. They gave seven feet
Of hight to Hercules. their first hero;
and iu our days we have seen men
eight feet high. The giant who was
shown in Rouen 10 1896 measured eight
feet seven inches. The Emperor Max
imin vas Of that size. Thenkins and
Ploterus, phy ysiciAns Of the last century.
saw several Of that structure; and Cor
opius saw . girl who WAS ten feet
high. The body Of Orestes. accord.
lng TO the Greeks, was eleven and .
half feet high. The giant GAlabro.
brought from Arabia 10 Rome under
Claudius Caesar. was nesr!y ten feet.
Ind the bones OF SecoEdills and Pluto.
keepers of the garden Of Ssllust, were
but six inches shorter. FaFnum. .
Scotobman, who lived 1t the Time OF
Eogepe H., King Of Scotland. meas
ursd eleven aud half feet; and Jacob
Maire. in his voyage to the Straits Of
Magellan, reports that on the 18th Of
DScembex. 1915. he found at Port De-
sire several graves covered with stones;
and, having the curiosity to remove the
stones, he found human skeletons ten
feet long, and some eleven feet These
seem to be we'll authenticated cases; !;
and there are others, some of which
are incredible, The Chez Scoty
in his voyage to the Peak Of TenerifTe.
says hs found in one Of the sepulchral
caverns Of that mou ntsin tn, head of
Gaunche which had eighty teeth. and
that the body wss not less than fifteen
feet long. The giant Ferragus. who
was slain by Orlando, nephew Of Charlie
mango, was eighteen feet high. Rio
land. . celebrated snatomist. who wrote
in 1914, says that some years before
there Vas to BE- seen in the suburbs of
st. Germain the tomb of the giant
Isoret, who Was twenty feet high. On
January 18th. 1913. mssons digging
nssr the ruins Of castle in Dauphine,
in Geld which by tradition had long
been called 1.-The giants field" at the
depth Of eighteen feet, discovered q
brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet
wide. and eight feet high. on which
was q gray stone with the words
"Theutobochus Rex engraved thereon.
When the tomb was opened they found
q human skeleton. entire, twenty-six
and quarter feet high. eight 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 shinbone measured four feet.
Near Mezsrini. in Sicily. in 1915. was
found q giant thirty feet high. His
head was the size OF a hogshead,( ~ and
each of his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo. in the valley Of A.azera.
in Sicily, . skeleton of giant thirty
feet long was found in the year l54S.
and another thirty-three feet high in
1850; and many curious persons have
preserved several Of these gigantic
bones. The Atbenians found near their
city two famous skeletons. one thirty
four and the other thirty-six feet high.
At Totu. in Bohemia, in 1853. was
foun . skeleton tie 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 the city. we're twenty-six feet long
The skull OF tho giant found in Mace
donis. IN September. 1901. held two
hundred and ten pounds Of corn. The
celebrated Sir Hans Sloane. who treat.
ed this matter very lsarnedly. does not
doubt these facts. but thinks the bones
were those Of elephants. whales or
other enormous animals. But though
bones may DO shown for
those Of giants. they can never impose
on counOisssurs. Whales-the bones
Of which. by their immense bulk. are
more likely to be substituted for those
Of the largest giant-hsve neither arms
nor legs. and the head Of the animal
has not the least resem blanoe to that Of
. man. II it be true. therefore. that .
great number of tbs gigantic bones
which we have mentioned have been
seen by apatomists, and have by them
been rsputed real human bones, the ex.
isteucc of giants is proved.