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tioned by St. Austin, to have been rather the tooth of an elephant, or else some 

 huge creature of the sea, than that of a man. But Ludovicus Vives, in his 

 commentaries on that passage of St. Austin, takes notice, that in the church 

 of St. Christopher at Hispella, he was shown a tooth larger than his fist, which 

 they pretended was one of the teeth of that huge saint, no doubt, on as good 

 ground as that very large shoulder-bone, which Hieronymus Magius says was 

 shown in a church at Venice, was the shoulder-bone of St. Christopher. 



The pretended skeleton of a giant, which was found near Drapini, a castle 

 in Sicily, on digging the foundation of a house, and is described by Joh. Boc- 

 catius, is again not unlikely to have been the skeleton of a large elephant. For 

 though the greater part of the bones, through the length of time, and the 

 force of the subterranean steams, were so rotten, that after being exposed to 

 the air, they fell to pieces almost on touching, yet three of the teeth were 

 found entire, which weighed 100 oz. and were by the inhabitants of Drapini 

 hung up in one of their churches, to perpetuate the memory of this fact. They 

 likewise found part of the skull, capacious enough to hold some bushels of corn, 

 and one of the shank-bones, which was so large, that on comparing it with 

 the shank-bone of an ordinary man, it was judged that this giant, whom some 

 took to be Erick, others Ethellus, others one of the Cyclops, and again others 

 the renowned Polyphemus himself, must have been 200 cubits high; according 

 to which calculation, he is figured and represented by F. Kircher, as by far the 

 largest of a whole gradation of giants, whom, after this, he places in the fol- 

 lowing order: 



Cubits. 

 The giant of Strabo, whose skeleton was dug up near Tingis in Mau- 

 ritania, and was found to be 6o high 



Pliny's giant, found in a mountain in Creta 46 



The skeleton of Asterius, son of Anactes 10 



The skeleton of Orestes, dug up by special command of the oracle . . 7 

 The giant, whose bones were found under a large oak, not far from 

 the convent of Reyden, in the canton of Lucern in Swisserland . . g 



Goliath, as described in sacred writ 6i 



The case is still less doubtful with regard to those bones which were found in 

 France in 1456, in the reign of Charles the 7th, by the side of a river in the 

 barony of Crussole, not far from Valence. Johannes Marius in libris de Galli- 

 arum Illustrationibus, Calamasus in suis de Biturigibus Commentariis, Fulgosus 

 in his Annals, et Joh. Cassanio of Monstroeuil, in his Treatise of Giants, 

 severally take notice of these bones, which were so large, that the whole height 

 of the giant, to whom it was thought they belonged, and who was supposed to 



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