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Giants.- "In Mason County, Virginia, in the year 1821, four skeletons were dug up, and three others found. The bones were remarkably large, particularly the skulls, which can easily be slipped? over the largest man's head. The upper jaw bone has two rows of teeth all around; the under but two on the left side and no socket, provided by nature? in the bone for more. The skulls, with considerable quantities of broken ware, buck horns, and muscle shells, were all buried in lime two feet deep.

      At Fort Chartres was found a human skull of astonishing magnitude. A jaw bone was taken from the mound near Natchez, which the gentle man who saw it could with ease put over his face; also a leg bone which from the ground reached three inches above the knee. (Schultz, 155; Brackenbridge, 279.) Many other instances might be enumerated, to establish the position, that a race of men of much larger bulk than any in America, at this day, formerly resided upon the Cumberland river and its waters, and upon the Tennessee, and its waters, and below them, upon the Mississippi, as well as upon the rivers north of Cumberland and in some parts of Virginia." p. 360.

"At the distance of about 4 miles southwest of Sparta, on the waters of the Caney Fork, are the remains of