The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-17
GIANTS OF OTHER TIMES.
Warrior Slain by CharIemaEne Was
Fully Eighteen Feet High.

Warrior Slain by CharIemagne Was
Fully Eighteen Feet High.
From the Washington Times.
That the human race has degenerated in
size as well as longevity is a fact well
attested by various authorities. we'll
known physician of this city, who has
made life study of brains and cerebal de-
| velopment says that visiting the cata-
| combs of Paris, what struck him most in
those vast ancient graveyards was the
| great size of the skulls in comparison with
| those of more modern mankind. This su-
| periorlty of development of the men who
| iived thousand years ago, the doctor at
tributed to the open air life then in vogue
and the physical sports and exercises
| INDUCED in
There are several races of giants men
| toned in the Bible and the Greek and
| Roman historians have recorded many
| examples which serve to show that these
| specimens of elongated humanity were by
no means rare a one period of the worlds
| history.
Thus it Is mentioned that the Emperor
| Macmillan was eight feet some inches
| high. The body of Orestes. according TO
| the Greeks, was eleven feet ard a half in
| hight; the giant Galbora, brought from
Arabia to Rome under Claudius Caesar.
measured near ten feet, and the bones of
| Secondilia and Pusio, keepers of the gar
dens of Salust, were but six inches
| shorter.
The probability is that, outside of cult
| waited Greece and Rome, among the semi
barbarous ancestors of the greater part of
present day European nations physical de-
velopment reached often to more Won
drous proportions
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the peak Of Teneriffe, says that they
found in one of the sepulchral caverns Of
that mountain the head of a Guanche
which had eighty teeth and that the body
was not less than fifteen feet long The
giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando, neplew
of Charlemagne was eighteen fest high.
Revland, a celebra ted anatcmist who
wrote in 1914, says that some years be-
fore that time there was to be seen in the
suburbs of St. Germaine the tomb of The
giant lsoret, who was twenty feet high.
At Rouen, in 1909, in digging in the
bitches near the Dominicamo there was
found stone tomb containing a skeleton
whose skull held a bushel of corn and
whose shin bone reached up to the grille
of the tallest man there. being about four
feet long, and consequently the body
must have been about seventeen or eigh-
teen feet high. Upon the tomb was
plate of copper, upon which was engrav-
puissant lord, the Chevalier Ruon de VAL
lemont. and his bones" There is, indeed,
evidence in the ponderous armor and two
handed swords, which remain TO us in
museums, to prove that the knight of
the ages of chivalry was an heroic speci-
men of human architecture.
Patterns, famous physician declared
that he saw at Lucarne the true human
bones of a subject, which must have
been at least nineteen feet high.
Valance in Dau hine, boasts Of possess
ing the bones of the giant Bucart, tyrant
of the Vivarais, who was ain by an ar
row by the Count de Babillcn, his vassal.
The Dominicans had a part of the shin
bone with the articulation of the knee,
and his figure pain ed in fresco, with an
ir scription showing that this giant was
twenty-five and one-half feet high and
that his bones were found in 1705 near
the banks of the Morderi, little river at
the foot of the mountain of Crusol, upon
which Oradition says the giant dwelt.
On Jan. IL. 1873 some masons digging
near the ruins of castle in Dauphine, in
a locality which ha I'd long beSn 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
"Theutohochus Rex" cut thereon. When
the tomb was opened they found a hu-
man skeleton entire, twenty-five and one
half feet long ten feet wide across the
shoulders and five feet deep from the
breast bone to the back. The teeth were
each about The size of an ox's foot and
his shin bone measured four feet.
Near Magazine, in Sicily, in 1915, was
found a 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 Niagara,
in Sicily a skeleton of giant thirty feet
long was found in the year 1913 and an
ether thirty-three feet high in 1850. Sew
eral of the gigantic bones of this latter
subject are still preserved by private per-
sons in Italy.
The Athenians found nearly thirty-two
famous skeletons, one thirty-four and an
other thirty-siX feet in hight.
At Todc, in Bohemia, in 1858, was found
skeleton, the head Of which could
scarcely be encompassed by the arms of
lwo men together and whose legs, which
are still preserved in the castle of the
CITY. were twenty-six feet long. The
skull of the giant found in Macedonia In
September, 1891, held 30 pounds of corn.
The celebrated English scientist, Sir
Hans Sloane who treated the matter very
learnedly, does not doubt the facts above
related but thinks tine bones were those
of claimants whales or other animals.
But It has been well remarked that, while
elephants bones may be shown for those
of giants to superficial observers this can
never impose upon such distinguished
anatornists as have testified In many
cases 10 the mammoth bones being unmis-
takably human. Whales, which by their
immense bulk, are more likely TO be sub
stituted for the largest giants, have
neither arms or legs, and the head Of that
marine animal. has not the least resem-
blance to that of man. II Il be true,
therefore. that a great number of the gil
gantic bones mentioned have been seen
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puted TO be real human remains. 1t may
reasonably be inferred that the existence
Of men of superior physical proportions
to any of modern times has been proved
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