Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-05-19
THE GIANTS OF OLD
ANCIENT RACES MARVELS OF PHYS
,CAL DEVELOPMENT.
The semibarbarians of One Thousand
Years Ago Were All Remarkably
Proportioned Men - The Giants OF
Ancient Greece and Rome.

That the human race has degener-
ated In size as well as longevity Is
fact we'll attested by various authort
ties A prominent Washington physl-
clan who has made life study OIL
Drain and cerebral developments, says
that ON visiting the catacombs OF far-
Is what struck him most IN those vast
renos,tories of the contents or the
citv,s ancient gaveyards was the
GREAT size of the skulls In comparison
with those of more modern mankind
This superiority Of development In the
men who lived 1000 years or more ago
the scientist attributes to the open ar
life then in vogue and the physical
snorts and exercises INDUCED In.
There are several races OF giants
mentioned IN the Bible, and the Greek
and Roman historians have recorded
many examples which serve to show
that these specimens of elongated hu-
mainly were by no means rare at one
neriod Of the worlds history.
Thus II is mentioned that the Emper-
or Nfaximlan was eight feet some inch
es high. The body of Orestes, accord
ing to the Greeks, was eleven ana q
half feet In height, the giant Galbora,
brought from Arabia to Rome under
Claudius Caesar, measured near ten
feet and the bones of Secondilla and
Pusio. keepers of the gardens Of Sal
Inst were but six inches shorter.
The probability is that outside Of cul-
tlvated Greece and Rome among tne
semibarbarous Of the greater part or
present day European nations physician
DEVELOPMENT reached often TO more
wondrOus proportions.
The Cheyaher Scory In his voyage TO
the peak of Tenerife says that they
found In one Of the sepulchral caverns
of that mountain the head OF q
Guanche which had eighty teeth ano
that the body was not less than nrteen
feet long. The giant Ferragus. slain
by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne
was eighteen feet high.
Rowland. celebrated anatomist VINO
wrote In 1914, says that some years
before that time there was to be seen
In the suburbs Of st. Germane the
tomb of the giant Isoret who was
twenty feet high.
At Rouen in 1909, In digging In the
bitches near the Dominicamo, there
was found stone tomb containing &
skeleton whose shin bone reached vi
10 the girdle of the tallest man there
being about four feet long, and conse
ouently the body must have been sew
enteep or eighteen feet high. Upon th'
tomb was plate Of copper upon whlci
was engraved, I'm this tomb lies th'
noble and puissant lord, the Chevalie
Ruon de Vallemont, and his bones
There is. indeed, evidence In the pom
derols armor and two handed sword
which remain to US In museums L
prove that the knight Of the ages o
chiylary was a heroic specimen OF hu
man architecture.
Patterns, a famous physician, DC
clared that he saw at Lucarne the tru
human bones of a subject who mus
have been at least nineteen feet hlgn.
Valance. in Dauphine, boasts OF pos
sessing the bones Of the giant Bucar
tvrant of the Vivarais, who was slai
nv an arrow by the Count de CabilloI
his vassal. The Dominicans had pal
of his shin bone, with the artcuIauo
of the knee, and bis figure painted
fresco, with an inscription SHOWN
that this giant was twenty-five an
one-half feet high and that his bone
were found In 1905 near the banks
the Moderi, little river at the foot
the mountain Of Crusol, upon whlC
tradition says the giant dwelt
On Ian. II. 1888, some masons oil
cling near the ruins of a castle
Dauphine. In locality which had lor
been known as the Giants field, at Il
depth of eighteen feet discovered
brick tomb thirty feet long, twel'
feet wide and eight feet high, on whl'
was q gray stone, with the wor'
"Theotobochus Rex" cut thereo
When the tomb was opened they foul
q human skeleton, entire, twenty-n
and one-half feet long, ten feet VII
across the shoulders and FIVE feet de-
from the breastbone to the back. L.
teeth were each about the size or
ox's foot. and his shin bone measur
four feet.
Near Margarine, In Sicily, in ID
was found a giant thirty feet mig
His head was the size Of q hogshea
and each of his teeth weighed Il
ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley Of NJ
CARA. In Sicily, skeleton Of a gia
thirty feet long was found In the ye
1913 and another thirty-three feet hi
in 1850. Several Of the gigantic bon
OF the latter subject are still preserv
by private persons in Italy.
The Athenians found thirty-two
nous skeletons, one thirty-four a
another thirty-six feet In height.
At Totic, in Bohemia, in 1853 W
found a skeleton the head Of Will
could scarcely be encOmpassed by
arms Of two men together and who
legs. which are still preserved IN
castle of the city, were twenty-six II
long.
The celebrated English scientist,
Hans Sloane, who treated the mat
very learnedly, does not doubt
facts above narrated, but thinks
bones were those Of elephants, wha
or other animals. But 1t has been "
remarked that, while elephants BOZ
may be shown for those of giants
superficial observers, this can ne
impose upon such distinguished an
omists as have testified In many ca
to the mammoth bones being unn
takably human.-Philadelph Reco
Be patient with every one, but an
I'll with yourself.-Francis.