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ACCOUNT OF GIANTS.
a famous physician, declared that he saw at Lticarne the
true human bones or a subject, which must have been at
least nineteen, feet high.
Valance, in Dauphine, boasts of possessing the bones
of the giant Bucart, tyrant of the Vivarais, who was slain
by an arrow by the Count de Cabillon, his Vassal. The
Dominicans had a part of the shin bone, with the articu-
lation of the knee, and his figure painted in fresco, with
an incription shewing that this giant was twenty-two feet
and a half high, and that his bones were found in 1705
near the banks of the Morderi, a little river at the foot of
the mountain of Crusol, upon which (tradition says), the
giant dwelt.
January 11, 1613, some masons digging near the ruins
of a castle inDauphine,in a field which (by tradition) had
long been called the giant’s field, at the depth of
eighteen feet discovered a brick tomb thirty feet long,
twelve feet wide, and eight feet high, on 'which was a
gray stone, with the words Theutobochus Rex cut there-
on; when the tomb was opened, they found a human
skeleton entire, twenty-five feet and a half long, ten feet
wide across the shoulders, and five feet deep from the
breast-bone to the back, his teeth were each about tlie
size of an ox’s foot, and his shin bone measured four
feet.
Near Magarino, in Sicily, in 1516, was found a giant
thirty feet high ; his head was the size of a hogshead, and
each of his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Magara in Sicily, a
skeleton of a giant, thirty feet long, was found in the year
1548, and another of thirty-three feet high, in 1550, and
many curious: persons have preserved several of the
gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near thirty-two famous skeletons,
one of thirty-four, and another of thirty-six feet high.
At
ACCOUNT OF GIANTS.
a famous physician, declared that he saw at Lticarne the
true human bones or a subject, which must have been at
least nineteen, feet high.
Valance, in Dauphine, boasts of possessing the bones
of the giant Bucart, tyrant of the Vivarais, who was slain
by an arrow by the Count de Cabillon, his Vassal. The
Dominicans had a part of the shin bone, with the articu-
lation of the knee, and his figure painted in fresco, with
an incription shewing that this giant was twenty-two feet
and a half high, and that his bones were found in 1705
near the banks of the Morderi, a little river at the foot of
the mountain of Crusol, upon which (tradition says), the
giant dwelt.
January 11, 1613, some masons digging near the ruins
of a castle inDauphine,in a field which (by tradition) had
long been called the giant’s field, at the depth of
eighteen feet discovered a brick tomb thirty feet long,
twelve feet wide, and eight feet high, on 'which was a
gray stone, with the words Theutobochus Rex cut there-
on; when the tomb was opened, they found a human
skeleton entire, twenty-five feet and a half long, ten feet
wide across the shoulders, and five feet deep from the
breast-bone to the back, his teeth were each about tlie
size of an ox’s foot, and his shin bone measured four
feet.
Near Magarino, in Sicily, in 1516, was found a giant
thirty feet high ; his head was the size of a hogshead, and
each of his teeth weighed five ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Magara in Sicily, a
skeleton of a giant, thirty feet long, was found in the year
1548, and another of thirty-three feet high, in 1550, and
many curious: persons have preserved several of the
gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near thirty-two famous skeletons,
one of thirty-four, and another of thirty-six feet high.
At