Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-04-05
THE GIANTS OF OLD
ANCIENT RACES mARvELs or PHYS
IcAL DEVELOPMENT.

Years Ago Were All Hemarkabl,
Proportional Men - The Giants nj
Ancient Greece aud Rome.
That the human race has degener
ated In size as well as longevity Is q
fact well attested by various authorl
ties. A prominent Washington physi
clan who has made a life study OF
brain and cerebral developments. says
that. on visiting the catacombs OF Par
Is, what struck him most Ia those vast
repositories OF the contents OF the
clty's ancient graveyards 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 10 the open air
life then In vogue and the physical
sports 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 20 show
that these specimens OF elongated hui
mainly were by no means rare at one
period OF the worlds history.
Thus Il Is mentioned that the Emper-
or Maxlmian was eight feet some inch
es high The body OF 0restes. accord
ing TO the Greeks. was eleven and a
half feet In height, the giant Galbora.
brought from Arabia 10 Rome under
Claudius Caesar. measured near ten
feet, and the bones OF Secondilla and
Puslo. keepers OF the gardens OF Sal
lust, were but six inches shorter.
The probability Is that outside OF cul-
tlvated Greece and Rome among the
semibarbarous OF the greater part OF
present day European nations physical
development reached often 10 more
wondr0us proportions.
The Chevaller Scory In his voyage 90
the peak OF Tenerife says that they
found In one OF the sepulchral caverns
OF that mountain the head OF
Guanche which had eighty teeth and
that the body was not less than fifteen
feet long. The giant Ferragus. slain
by Orlando. nephew OF Charlemagne.
was eighteen feet high
Revland. n celebrated anatomist who
wrote In 1914. says that some years
before that time there was 90 be seen
In the suburbs OF ST. Germane the
tomb OF the giant Isoret who was
twenty feet high.
Al Roucu IN 1909. IN digging in the
bitches near the Domlnicamo.. there
was found stone tomb containing a
skeleton whose shin bone reached up
20 the girdlc OF the tallest man there.
being about four feet long. and conse-
quently the body must have been sew
cutcen or eighteen feet high Upon the
tomb was plate OF copper upon which
was engraved. In this tomb lies the
noble and puissant lord. the Cheyaller |
Ruon de Vallemont and bis bones"
There Is Indeed. evidence In the pom
derous armor aud two handed swords |
which remain 20 Us In museums 90 |
prove that the knight of the ages % /
was a heroic specimen OF hu- |
nan architecture.
Patterns. famous physician. de-
ciarcd that De saw nc Lucarne the true
human bones ~ a subject who must
have been 40 least nlnetecn feet high.
Valance Do Dauphine boasts % pos
-essing the bones u the slant Bucart.
-yranf % The Vivarlis. who was slain
~ on arrow hy the Count De Cablilon.
bis vassaL Tie uomluicans had part
% his shin bone. win the aruculafioa
lf toe knee. and his figure painted in
.u-sco. with on inscript.ou showing
.hat this giant was twenty-five And
lue.lat feet lIEh and that Dc i.gues
were found lu l70C uear ule larLs ~
Doe Moder- q utiie river at the foai ~
be mountain az CrusoL u1ol wheh
tradition says tbe giant dwtit
on Jan ~ lE1 su-lf u1s1us dIF
auc near the ruins ~ castle M
Iauph.ne ln locality wlIcl had lgcg
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