| Show mammoth men I 1 the bible saya there were in those days and it seven caseb cases of giants as the ims the anakie An akim ahlm the the nims and add others profane historians also mention giants they gave beven seven feet of height to hercules their first heio hero and in our day we have seen men iben eight feet high the giant who was shown in jn rouen in ip measured mel mei eight feet and some inches the emperor maximin was of that size Sh enkins and plo physicians of the last century baw paw 19 beveral several of that stature and Gor Gorop oplus lua iua haw paw a girl who was 10 feet high the body of Oro stes according to the greeks was a iii lii feet the giant galatro Ga labro brought from arabia to bome borne under claudius comar was nearly 10 19 feet and the bones of Sec pualo keeper peeper of the gardens of Bal sal lust were but six ancher shorter farrl Farri farnium um a lived in the time of eugene II 11 king of scotland measured ili hi feet and james malre maire in his bis voyage to the 8 of magellan reports that on the of december 1615 they found at port desire several graves covered with stone stones and having the curlo curto curiosity sity gity to i remove i these stones they aund found hum human ans skeletons kele keie tons 10 feet long iong and some 11 feet to be well geil authenticated cases and there are others some bome of which are incredible the chevalier in his voyage to the peak of Teneil ff e says they found in one of the sepulchral caverns of the mountain the head bead of a with 80 teeth and that the body was not less than 15 feet long the giant Ferr Fer ragus agua who was slain by Orlando nephew of charlemagne was IS 18 feet high raoland Bi Ri oland a celebrated anatomist who wrote in 1614 says some year years before there wms was seen in the suburbs of st germain the tomb of me giant who was waa 20 feet high january 11 1813 masons digging near the ruins of a castle in dauphine in a field which by tradition had long been called the giants field at the depth of 18 feet discovered a brick tomb 30 feet long 12 feet wide and eight feet high on which there was a gray stone with the words rex rem engraved thereon when the tomb was opened they found the sh eleton skeleton 26 feet high IS 18 feet wide across the shoulder and five feet deep from the breast bone to the back his feet were about the size of an oxe ox foot and his shin bone measured four feet near mazarine Me zarine in sicily in 1585 was found a giant SO 30 feet high his head was the size of a hogshead and elota bl ot at bis vila teeth weighed five ounces near palermo in the valley of Sl mazara azara in sicily a skeleton of a giant 30 feet long in the year of 1843 and another 33 feet high iu in 1850 and many curious persona have preserved beveral several of these gigantic bones the athenians found near their city two famous skeletons one si 31 and the other 36 feet high at botu in bohemia in was found a skeleton the head bead of which could scarcely be encompassed by the arms of two men together and whose legs which they ila the castle of that city were 26 feet long iong the skull of the giant glant found in macedonia september 1691 held pounds of corn the celebrated haus hans sloane who treated th this Is matter very learnedly bays says he does not doubt these facts but thinks the bones were those of elephant whales or other enormous animals but e elephants e bones may be b shown for those of giants but they can never impose on connoisseurs whales which by their immense balk are more probable to be substituted for the largest giants have neither arms nor legs and the head bead of that animal has not the least resemblance to that of a mau man if it be true a great number of the gigantic bones which we have mentioned have been teen keen by anatomists and have by them been reputed real human bones the ax existence of giants is proved new yora york tribune |
