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GUnt Skeleton* Found.J. H. Porter has a farm near Northeast Erie county, Pa., not many miles fromwhere the Lake Shore Rati road crosses the New York State boundary line. Last week some workmen in Mr. Porters employ came upon the entrance toto a cave, and on entering it, found heaps of bones within. Many skeletons were complete, and exhibited to the naturalists and ardueolgists oi the neighborhood. They informed the wondering bystanders that the remains were unmistakably those of giants. The entire village of Northeast was aropsed by the discovery, and Sunday hundreds of people from Erie took advantage' of their holiday visit to the scene, jIt was at first conjectured that the remains were those of soldiers killed in battle with Indians that abounded in the vicinity during the last century! but the size of the skulls and the length of the leg bones dispelled the tlieoryi So far about a hundred and fifty giant ^kdetons : o! powerful proportions have been ex- 1 hmned and indications point !p a sec-: ond cave eastward, which may probably contain as many more.Scientists who have exhausted skeletons and made careful measurements of the bones say they are a race of gigantic creatures, compared with which our tallest men would appear as pigmies. There are now arrow heads, stone hatchets or other implements of war with the bodies. Some of the bones are on ex-.hibitation at various stores. One is asthick as a good-sized bucket:It would be bad if the above should turn out to be another Erie counly lie.
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Greenville Advance Argus
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jun 11, 1885
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