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Giants

of an ancient fortification, containing about five acres, perfectly square. The walls being composed entirely of dirt, as appears from the present state of its ruins. Here is a great burying place. The human skeletons discovered here, are remarkable for their gigantic stature. From all that can now be discovered, this must have been a race of men averaging at least 7 feet in height. Such men, it is probable, never grew in the tropical climate. No instance is recollected, of giants between the tropics?. Some were planted by the Scythians in Palestine, when in a very distant age they penetrated as far as to the confines of Egypt, and built the city of Scythopolis. But such men never came from between the tropics?. The skeletons now under consideration, were some of the ancient Scythians, who, down to the Christian era, terrified the nations which they invaded, by their enormous bulk." 173.

"About ten miles from Sparta, in White County, a conical? mound was lately (published 1823) opened, and in the centre of it was found a skeleton eight feet in length. With it was found etc. ?." p. 196.

"With this skeleton was found another nearly of the same size, with the top of his head flat, & his eyes placed apparently in the upper part of his forehead. The Aztecs in Mexicans represent their principal divinities, as their hieroglyphical manu-