high.

Valence in Dauphine boasted of possessing the bones of the giant
Bucart, the tyrant of the Vivarias, who was slain by his vassal, Count
de Cabillon. The Dominicans had the shin-bone and part of the
knee-articulation, which, substantiated by the frescoes and
inscriptions in their possession, showed him to be 22 1/2 feet high.
They claimed to have an os frontis in the medical school of Leyden
measuring 9.1 X 12.2 X .5 inches, which they deduce must have belonged
to a man 11 or 12 feet high.

It is said that while digging in France in 1613 there was disinterred
the body of a giant bearing the title "Theutobochus Rex," and that the
skeleton measured 25 feet long, 10 feet across the shoulders, and 5
feet from breast to back. The shin-bone was about 4 feet long, and the
teeth as large as those of oxen. This is likely another version of the
finding of the remains of Bucart.

Near Mezarino in Sicily in 1516 there was found the skeleton of a giant
whose height was at least 30 feet; his head was the size of a hogshead,
and each tooth weighed 5 ounces; and in 1548 and in 1550 there were
others found of the height of 30 feet. The Athenians found near their
city skeletons measuring 34 and 36 feet in height. In Bohemia in 758 it
is recorded that there was found a human skeleton 26 feet tall, and the
leg-bones are still kept in a medieval castle in that country. In
September, 1691, there was the skull of a giant found in Macedonia
which held 210 pounds of corn.

General Opinions.--All the accounts of giants originating in the
finding of monstrous bones must of course be discredited, as the
remains were likely those of some animal. Comparative anatomy has only
lately obtained a hold in the public mind, and in the Middle Ages
little was known of it. The pretended giants' remains have been those
of mastodons, elephants, and other animals. From Suetonius we learn
that Augustus Caesar pleased himself by adorning his palaces with
so-called giants' bones of incredible size, preferring these to
pictures or images. From their enormous size we must believe they were
mastodon bones, as no contemporary animals show such measurements.
Bartholinus describes a large tooth for many years exhibited as the
canine of a giant which proved to be nothing but a tooth of a
spermaceti whale (Cetus dentatus), quite a common fish. Hand described
an alleged giant's skeleton shown in London early in the eighteenth
century, and which was composed of th