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» That Were Thirty or Forty Feet High, So It Ie Said. The past was more prolific in the pro duction of giants than the present. In 1890 one of these giants, who was ex hibited at Rouen, was ten feet high, and the giant Galabra, brought from Arabia to Rome in the time of Clau dius Caesar, was the same height Fannum, who lived in the time of Eu gene II, was eleven and one-half feet The Chevalier Seroy in his journey to the peak Tenerife found in one of the caverns of that mountain the head of a Sant who had sizty teeth and who was not less than fifteen feet high. The Sant Faragus, slain by Orlando, the nephew of Charlemagne, according to reports, was twenty-eight feet high. In 1814 near St Gernad was found the tomb of the giant Isolent, who was ‘Bot less than thirty feet high. In 1500 Bear Rouen was found a skeleton ‘Whose head held a bushel of corn and Which was nineteen feet in height. ‘The giant Bacrt was twenty-two feet . In 1023 near the castle in Dauphine a tomb was found thirty feet long, six teen feet wide and eight feet high on Which were cut in graystone the words “Kentolochus Rex.” The skeleton was found entire and measured twenty-five and one fourth feet high, ten feet across the shoulders and five feet from breastbone to the back. But France is not the only country where giant skeletons have been un earthed. Near Palermo, Sicily, in 1516, was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high and in 1560 another forty-four feet high. Near Magrino, on the same island, in 1810, was found the skeleton of giant of thirty feet ‘Whose head was the size of a hogshead ‘and each tooth weighed five ounces.
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Gladstone Age
Gladstone, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jun 15, 1905
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