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INTERESTING KELIC.Discovery of a Giant Skeleton in Shelby County.Siiet.byviLLK, Ind., Sept. 1.—Geo. Arnold, a farm hand in the employ of Frank Boots, who lives about fifteen miles west of this city, made a discovery which has excited widespread interest.. The object of this interest is th^skelefon of what was once a man of gigantic proportions, winch was dug out of a graved-pit on aIl*. B.'s farm. The skeleton was found in a sitting position, facing the east, and six feet beneath the surface. Some of the bones were considerably broken by a caving of the bank, but the skull and some of the larger bones were got out intact, and from them may be realizedthe gigantic Mature of the being to whom they once gave support. A measurement of the skull from front to rear, the rule passing through the eye-socket from to the back of the head, was 10 inches, while the breadth of the interior maxillary was 8.] inches. A careful measurement of the other bones establish the fact that the mart, when alive, was not les3 than (.) feet high and large in ! proportion. From the appearance of the ! teeth, which are very large and show not a j sign of decay, although they are worn very | much, the man could not have been much less titan a hundred years old when he died, land he may have been much older. The : bones of the lower jaw are very large and j thick, showing an extent of muscular development in that organ which is lar beyond , a nything of the present, day. Mow long ago the body of the dead giant 'was interred, or l to what tribe or nation lie belonged, it is impossible to any, but it must have been ages ago, as all tlie indications show that the soil where the remains were discovered had not been disturbed for many generations.Steps have been taken to have casts made of the bones, and they will be placed either in the State collections or one of our college museums.
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New Harmony Register
New Harmony, Indiana, US
Fri, Sep 07, 1883
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