Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1906-04-25
THE GIANTS OF OLD
ANCIENT RACES MARveLs OF PHYS
IcAl DEVELOPMENT.

The senisarssrfan.o OF one Thousand
Year. 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 n
fact well attested by various authori-
ties. 4 prominent Washington physi-
clan who has made life study OF
brain and cerebral developments, says
that, on visiting the catacombs OF Par
IS what struck him most I'm those vast
repositories of the contents OF the
city's ancient graveyards was the
great size OF the skulls I'm 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 air
life then I'm 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 TO show
that these specimens OF elongated hui
mainly were by no means rare at one
period OF the worlds history.
Thus II is mentioned that the Emper-
or Maximian was eight feet some inch
es high. The body OF Orestes. accord
ing TO the Greeks. was eleven and 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
lust. were but six inches shorter.
The probability is that outside Of cul-
tivated Greece and Rome among the
semlbarbarous OF the greater part OF
present day European nations physical
development reached often TO more
wondrous proportions.
The Chevalier 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 Il
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.
Rowland. a celebrated anatomlst who
wrote I'm 1614. 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 I'm 1909. In digging in the
bitches near the Domlnicamo. there
was found n stone tomb containing a
skeleton whose shin bone reached up
TO the girdle OF the tallest man there,
being about four feet long, and conse-
Quently the body must have been sew
enteen or eighteen feet high. Upon the
tomb was a plate OF copper upon which
was engraved. "In this tomb lies the
noble and puissant lord. the Chevalier
Ruon de Vallemont. and his bones"
There is. indeed. evidence In the pom
derous armor and two handed swords
which remain 10 us In museums to
prove that the knight OF the ages OF
chivlary was n heroic specimen OF hui
man architecture.
Patterns, famous physician. de-
clared that he saw at Lucarne the true
human bones OF subject who must
have been at least nineteen feet high.
Valance. In Dauphine, boasts OF pos
sesslng the bones OF the giant Bucart.
tyrant Of the Nivarais. who was slain
by an arrow by the Count de Cabillon.
his vassal. The Domlnicans had part
OF his shin bone. with the articulation
OF the knee. and his figure painted I'm
fresco. with an inscription showing
that this giant was twenty-five and