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scarce an exception, Giants are ever found in juxta- 

 position with Dwarfs, who, in reality, are the mere 

 subjects of the other, and perhaps little inferior in sta- 

 ture, but certainly not so well supplied with food, and 

 its consequent physical results. Hence, in the early 

 ages, each party sees Giants among the leaders of the 

 enemy, and only heroes in its own. Here, again, the 

 rapid decline from conquering tribes to single families, 

 sinking still to individuals in a tribe of casual birth, who 

 on some occasions were elected to be Roman emperors 

 and Gothic chiefs. At a later period, they pass into a 

 kind of brutal champions, kept for the sport or for the 

 wars of chieftains in the middle and feudal ages, or for 

 show, as certain men are still retained in Asia. Such 

 Giants, in remote times, were the leaders and princes 

 of idolatrous Egypt and Canaan, Apoplieis, Og, Goliath, 

 &c. Such the first horsemen conquerors of the Bedoueeu 

 or Ethiopian Arabs, still obscurely designated in the 

 national lore as fair and blue eyed, till the Almighty 

 turned them red, and then black, in punishment for 

 their iniquity.* And in mythological dualism, the 

 red-haired Typhon, Baby, or Anteus, types drawn, 

 equally with the Nephilim, from the red and fair haired 

 nations of Northern Asia, Gog and Magog (Haiguge 

 and Magiuge, or the lofty and kindred lofty) Scythian 

 tribes ; the Cyclopians and Lestrigons, the Thyrsen or 

 Tyrheni, and Raseni. Such the deified heroes of Greece 

 and of Etruria, always represented naked, like the Bare- 

 sarks and Blaumans of the north, and Gaurs and Hunen 

 * See Tarikh Tebry. 



