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Show t.innls. In one of his recent lectures, Prof. Siiiiman, the younger, aiiuded to the discovery of the skeleton of an enormous enor-mous lizard of eighty feet. The Professor Pro-fessor inferred, as no living specimen of such magnitude has been found, that the species which it represents had degenerated. The verity of his position he rather singularly endeavored endeavor-ed to enforce by an allusion to the well-known existence of ciants in old times. The following list is the data upon which the singular hypothesis is based : The giant exhibited at Roueu, in lGTu, the Professor says, measured nearly eighteen i'eet. I iarapius saw a girl tint was eicht feet high. The giant Ijalubra. brought from Arabia to Ft-une. under Claudius Cre-sar. Cre-sar. was ten feet high. Fan num. who lived in the time of Eugenie II.. measured eleven and a half feet. The Chevalier Scroir. iu his voyage tu the Peak i.f Tenerirle. t'ouud iu one of the cavern- of that mountain the head of the Gunieh, who had sixty teeth, nnd was not less than fifteen feet high. The giant l anaiius, slaiu by Orlando, Orlan-do, nephew of t'hatlemange, was twen ty feet high. In low, near Ivoueu, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and who was nineteen feet high. The giant Kaseart was thirty-three feet, hid); his thigh-bones were found in 1 7 Jo near the Kiver Moderi. In near the ca.-tle iu Dauphiuc, a tomb was thirty feet long, sixteen feet wide, and eight feet high, on which was cut in gray stone these words, "Keutolo.-hus Kex." The skeleton was found entire, twenty five and a fourth leet long, ten feet across the shoulders, and five feet from tne breast bone to the back. Near Palermo, in Sicily, iu l.jJO, wa.- found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high, and. in 1-35, another forty-four feet high. -Sear Mazalino, in Sicily, in Islo. was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high. The head was the size of a hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. e have no doubt there were giants in tho.-c days, and the past was more prolific in producing them than the present. lint the history of giants during the olden time was not more than that of dwarfs, several of whom were even smaller than the Thumbs and Nutts of our time. |