GIANTS OF oLpEN TIME.
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In one of his recent lectures. Professor Silliman the younger, alluded to the dis> covery of the skeleton of an enormous liz. ard. measuring, upwards of 80 feet. The professor infected, as>no living specimen of such gieahiios magnitude has been found, that the species.oF~hich 1t is the representative has greatly degenerated.- The verity of position, he rather singu- larly endeavors to enforce by the allu- sion to the well known existence of gi- ants in olden times. The following list furnishes the data on which this singular hypothesis is based:

 The giant exhibited at Rouen in 1886, the Professor says, measured over eight cen feet. .-t

 Gorapius saw giant ten feet high.

 The body of Grostes was Il l~2 feet high.

 The giant Galabra, brought from Ara> bia 10 Rome, under Claudius Cesar, was near 10 feet. " Funnam, who lived In the time of Eu. gene II, measured II l>2 feet.

 The Cavalier Scrog, in his voyage to the peak of Tenel fife, found in one of the caverns of that mountain, the head of Gus nunch, which has so teeth, and it is supposed that his body was not less than l5 feet long.

 The gian. Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nephew to Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high.

 In 1914, near St. Germain, was found tho tomb Of the giant Isorent, who was was DO less than 20 feet high.

 In 1890. near Rouen, there was found a skeleton whose skull held bushel of corn, and whose body must have been ls feet long.

 Platorious saw at Lucerne, the human bones of a subject l9 feet long. The giant Bacart, was % and a hali feet in length; his thigh bones were found near the banks of the river Moderi. In l7l3 near castle in Dauphine, a tomb was found 30 feet long, 20 wide, and eight feet high, on which was cut on a grey stone the words, 'eKeutolochus Rex" The skeleton was found entire g l-2 feet long, 10 feet across the shoul~ ders and 5 feet deep from the breast bone to the back. aee

 Near Mazorino, in Sicily. in l5l6, was found the skeleton of giant thirty feet high. His head was the size of hogs head, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. @

 Near Palermo, in Sicily, in l54s, was found the skeleton of q giant 30 feet aigh and another 33 feet high in 1850.