The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-19
MAMMOTH MEN.
Some of the Giants Mentioned in History
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The Bible says there were giants In those
days." and it mentions several cases Of giants
as the Rephaims, the Anakims, the Emims
the IOnzonims and others.
Pr0fane historians also mention giants
They gave seven feet OF height to Hercules
the first hero, aud 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 MaXimin was OF
that size; Shenkins and Ploterus, physicians
OF the last century, saw several Of that stat
ure, and Goropius saw girl who was ten feet
high.
The body Of Orostes, according to the
Greeks, was eleven and half feet. The giant
Galabro, brought from Arabia to Rome, under
Claudius Caesar, was nearly ten feet and the
bones of Secondi!la and Pufo, 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
Marie, in his voyage to the Straits OF Magel-
December, 1915, they found at Port Desire
several graves covered with stones, and hav-
ing the curiosity to remove the stones they
found human skeletons ten feet long, and
some eleven feet.
(These seem to be well authenticated cases,
and there are others, some Of which are in
credible.(
The Chevaer Scory, in his voyage to the
peak OF Teneriffe, says they found in one Of
the sepulchral caverns of that mountain the
mead OF Gaunche which had eighty teeth,
and that the body was not less than fifteen
feet long.
The giant Ferragus, who was slain BY Or
iando nephew Of Cnarlemange, was eighteen
feet high.
Roland, q celebrated anatomist. who wrote
III l6l4, says that some years before there vas
TO be seen in the suburbs Of st. German tie
tomb OF the giant Isoret. who was twenty feet
high. w.
January II, 1913, masons digging near tbe
ruins Of q Castle II Dauphne, III a field which
BY tradition has long been called the CLANS
HELD, ~ the depthoi eighteen feet, discovered
brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet wide
and eight high On Which was a gray Stone
with the words stTheutobochus Rex, en-
graved thereon. When the tomb was 0nenad
they found human skeleton entire, TWENTY
six and quarter feet high, eighteen feet vide
across the shoulders. and five feet deep from
the breast bone to the back His feet were
about the size of an oxs foot, and bis shin
bone measured four feet.
Near Mezarina, Id Sicily, 1915. was found
giant thirty feet high. His head was the slza
Of q hogsEead t1 and each Or his teeth
weighed i've ounces.
Near Palermo, il the valley Of Mazara, ia
sicily, a Skeleton Of a giant thirty feet long
was found in the year 1913, and another fhir-
ty-three feet high 10 1855; and many curious
persons have preserved several Of these II
gantic bones
The Athenians found near their city two
famous skeletons, one thirty-four and the
other thirtysiA feet high.
At Iotu, in Bohemia, In 75S, was found |
skeleton, the head OF which could scarcely be |
encompassed by the arms Of two men a.
geIler, and whose legs, which they still keep
10 the castle Of that city were twenty six feet
long
The skull OF the giant found ia Macedonia,