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ACCOUNT OF GIANTS. 47
that size; Skenhius and Plateries, physicians of the last
century, saw several of that stature; and Goropius saw a
girl that was ten feet high.
The body of Orestes, according to the Greeks, was
eleven feet and a half; the giant Galbora, brought from
7 O 7 o
Arabia to Rome under Claudius Ctesar, was near ten
feet; and the bones of Secondilla and Pusio, keepers of
the gardens of Sallust, were but six inches shorter.
Funnam, a Scotsman, who lived in the time of Eugene
the second, king of Scotland, measured eleven feet and
a half; and Jacob le Maire, in his voyage to the Streight
of Magellan, reports, that on the 17th of Dec. 1615, they
found at Port Desire several graves covered with stones,
and having the curiosity to remove the stones, they dis-
covered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the Pike of
Teneriffe, says, that they found in one of the sepulchral
caverns of that mountain, the head of a Guanche, which
had eighty teeth, and that the body was not less than
fifteen feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain, by Orlando, nephew of Char-
leinain, was eighteen feethigh.
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Revland, a celebrated anatomist who wrote in 1614,
says, that some years before there was to be seen in the
suburbs of St. Germain, the tomb of the giant Isoret, who
was twenty feet high.
In Rouen, in 1509, in digging in the ditches near the
Dominicamo, they found a stone tomb containing a ske-
leton, whose >kull held a bushel of corn, and whose shin
bone reached up to the girdle of the tallest man there:
being about four feet long, and consequently the body
must have been seventeen or eighteen feet high ; upon
the tomb was a plate of copper, whereon was engraved,
“ In this tomb lies the noble and Puissant Lord, the
Chevalier Ruon de Vallemont, and his bones.” Platerus,
h 2 a famous
that size; Skenhius and Plateries, physicians of the last
century, saw several of that stature; and Goropius saw a
girl that was ten feet high.
The body of Orestes, according to the Greeks, was
eleven feet and a half; the giant Galbora, brought from
7 O 7 o
Arabia to Rome under Claudius Ctesar, was near ten
feet; and the bones of Secondilla and Pusio, keepers of
the gardens of Sallust, were but six inches shorter.
Funnam, a Scotsman, who lived in the time of Eugene
the second, king of Scotland, measured eleven feet and
a half; and Jacob le Maire, in his voyage to the Streight
of Magellan, reports, that on the 17th of Dec. 1615, they
found at Port Desire several graves covered with stones,
and having the curiosity to remove the stones, they dis-
covered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the Pike of
Teneriffe, says, that they found in one of the sepulchral
caverns of that mountain, the head of a Guanche, which
had eighty teeth, and that the body was not less than
fifteen feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain, by Orlando, nephew of Char-
leinain, was eighteen feethigh.
7 O o
Revland, a celebrated anatomist who wrote in 1614,
says, that some years before there was to be seen in the
suburbs of St. Germain, the tomb of the giant Isoret, who
was twenty feet high.
In Rouen, in 1509, in digging in the ditches near the
Dominicamo, they found a stone tomb containing a ske-
leton, whose >kull held a bushel of corn, and whose shin
bone reached up to the girdle of the tallest man there:
being about four feet long, and consequently the body
must have been seventeen or eighteen feet high ; upon
the tomb was a plate of copper, whereon was engraved,
“ In this tomb lies the noble and Puissant Lord, the
Chevalier Ruon de Vallemont, and his bones.” Platerus,
h 2 a famous