p. 64 | Giants | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 6, 1872

Giants.

GARAPINS saw a girl that was ten feet high.

The giant Galabra, brought from Arabia to Rome, under Claudius-Cæsar, was ten feet high.

Fannum, who lived in the time of Eugene II., measured eleven and a half feet.

The Chevalier Scrog, in his voyage to the Peak of Tenerife, found in one of the caverns of that mountain the head of the Gunnich, who had sixty teeth, and was not less than fifteen feet high.

The giant Farragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, was twenty feet high.

In 1500, near Rouen, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and who was nineteen feet high.

The giant Racart was thirty-three feet high; his thigh-bones were found in 1703 near the River Moderi.

In 1623, near the castle in Dauphine, a tomb was thirty feet long, sixteen feet wide, and eight feet high, on which was cut in gray stones these words: “Kentolochus Rex.” The skeleton was found entire, twenty-five and a fourth feet long, ten feet across the shoulders, and five feet from the breast bone to the back.

Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1316, was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high.