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some time ago at Lucerne in an ancient college of the 

 Jesuits. 



In the reign of Louis XIII. there was found on the 

 banks of the Rhone a skeleton which attained great 

 celebrity. It was shown as that of Teutobocchus, defeated 

 by Marius in a most sanguinary struggle. It was said to 

 have been exhumed from a tomb bearing this inscription, 

 "Teutobocchus rex:" in which were also found some medals 

 with the same title. But despite all this evidence, the 

 remains of this too famous king of the Cimbri, which gave 

 rise to so many bitter disputes among the faculty and phy- 

 sicians of Paris, were recognized by De Blainville as being 

 nothing more than those of a narrow-toothed mastodon"^ 

 [M. angustidens). 



The name of the Field of Giants is even often given to 

 places in which the bones of elephants and mastodons 

 abound.'^ 



^ Gigantology is almost a special science. We possess remarkable works 

 treating of this subject ; for much has been written about giants buried in the 

 bosom of the earth, or inclosed in tombs, and these have given rise to sharp dis- 

 cussions. The titles of some of these works will suffice to give an idea of them. 

 De gigantibus eorumque reliquiis, atque iis, quae ante annos aliquot nostra 

 fetate in Gallia repertse sunt, par J. Cassanione, Basileos, 1.580. — Gigantosteologie 

 ou Discours des Os de Geants, par N. Habioot, Paris, 1613. — Antigigantologie ou 

 Contre-discours de la Grandeur des Geants, par N. Habicot, 1618. — Histoire verit- 

 able du Gcant Theutobochus, roy des Theutons, Cimbres, et Arabrosins, deffait 

 pjar Marius, cent cinq ans avant la venlie de notre Sauveur, par J. Tissot. — Giganto- 

 logie. Histoire de la grandeur des geants, par Riolan, Paris, 1618. — Gigantomachie 

 pour repondre 4 la Gigantosteologie, par Kiolan, 1613. 



2 Near Bogota, at a height of 2660 metres (about 87.50 feet), there is a field 

 filled with bones of mastodons, called there the Campo de Gigantes (field of the 

 giants), in which Humboldt had some excavations made with great care. — Cosmos, 

 b. i. p. 321. 



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