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for money, in Paris and several other places, 

 and, in order to excite further curiosity, he cir- 

 culated a pamphlet, in which he asserted that 

 they had been found in a sepulchre, thirty feet 

 long, on which had been inscribed, *Teutobochus 

 Rex.' It is well known tliat this was the name 

 of the King of the Cimbri wlio fouglit against 

 Marius ; and, to further this supposition, M. 

 Mazuricr added, that fifty medals were found in 

 the same place, bearing the effigy of this Roman 

 consul, and the initials of his name. The sur- 

 geon, however, was accused of having employed 

 a Jesuit, named Tournon, to write this pamphlet, 

 and who forged the history of the sepulchre 

 and the inscription. Tlic pretended medals bore 

 Gothic instead of Roman letters, and it seems 

 that Mazurier never justified liimself from these 

 accusations of imposture." Tlie bones were 

 afterwards all recognised as belonging to ele- 

 phants ; but, notwithstanding this detection, 

 there was no end to the stories about giants, and 

 each country possessed its own marvellous tale. 

 The city of Lucerne took for supporters to its 

 coat of arms pretended giants found in 1577, near 

 that place, and close by the cloister of Reyden, in 

 a hole, which was accidentally formed by the 

 tearing up of a large oak by the roots, in a 



