Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-12
Mammoth Men.

[From the New York C1pper.l The Bible says ssthere were giants in those days" and 1t mentions several cases of giants, as the Rephaims, the Anakims, the Emims, the Zonzonims and others. Frofane 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 and some inches. The Emperor Maximi was of that size Shenkins and Ploterus, physi- clans of the last century, saw several of that stature, and Goropius saw a girl who was ten feet high.
 The body of Orostes, according to the Greeks, was eleven and g half feet. The giant Galabro, brought from Arabia to Rome under Claudius Cesar, was nearly ten feet, and the bones of Secondilla Pufio, keeper of the gardens of Sallust, were but six inches shorter. Farnun, @ Scotchman who lived ill the time of Eugene IT., King of Scotland, meas ured eleven and half feet, and Jacob Maire, in his voyage to the Straits of Magellan, re- ports that on the 17th of December, 1915, they found at Port Desire several graves cov- cred with stones, and having the curiosity to remove these stones, they found human skel- etons ten feet long and some eleven feet.
 TThese seem to be well authenticated cases, and there are others, some of which are in- credible.
 The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the Peak of Tenerife, says they found in one of the SSputoQral C2V6EuS OL Gu6 uOuutdln tuO head of Gauncho with eighty teeth, and that the body was not less than fifteen feet long.
 The giant Ferragus, who was slain by Or Iando, nephew of Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high
 Rioland, celebrated anatomist, who wrote in 1914, says some years before there was seen in the suburbs of St. Germain the tomb of the Giant Isoret, who was twenty feet high.
 January Il, 1913, masons digging near the ruins of castle in Dauphine, in field which by tradition had long been called the giants field at depth of IS feet, discovered brick tomb 30 feet long, 12 feet wide and eight feet high, on which there was gray stone with the words, s'Theutobochus Rex" engraved thereon. When the tomb was opened they found human skeleton entire, 364 feet high, IS feet wide across the shoulders, and feet deep from the breast bone to the back. His feet were about the size of an ox's foot, and his shin bone measured four feet.
 Near Mezarine, in Sicily, in 1885, was found giant thirty feet high. His head was the size of hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces.
 Sicily, a skeleton of giant thirty feet long, in the year 1s43, and another, thirty-three feet high, in 1850 and many curious persons have preserved several of these gigantic bones.
 The Athenians found near their city two famous skeletons, one thirty-four and the other thirty -six feet high.
 At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75s, was found skeleton, the head of which could scarcely be encompassed by the arms of two men togeth- CT, 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 Macedonia in September, 1891, held two hundred and ten pounds of corn. The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who treated this matter very learnedly, says he does not doubt these facts, but thinks the bones were those of elephants, whales or other enormous animals. But ele- phants' bones may be shown for those of giants, but they can never impose on connois. seurs. Whales which, by their immense bulk, are more probable to be substituted for the largest giants, have neither arms nor legs, and the head of that animal has not the least re- semblance to that of man. If it be true, therefore, that great number of the gigan- tic bones which we have mentioned have been seen by anatomists, and have by them been reputed real human bones, the existence of giants is proved.