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were an inch and a half longer than his, from the point of his hip to his knee: supposing the whole frame to have been in the same proportion, the body it belonged to must have been seven feet high or upwards. Many bones in the mounds there, are of equal size. Suppose a man seven or eight feet high, that is from 18 inches to two feet taller than men of the common size; suppose the body broaden in the same proportion, also his arms and legs; would he not be entitled to the name of giant? Col. William Sheppard, late of North Carolina, in the year 1807, dug up, on the plantation of Col. Joel Lewis, 2 miles from Nashville, the jaw bones of a man, which easily covered the whole chin & jaw of Col. Lewis, a man of large size. Some year afterwards, Mr Cassady dug up a skeleton from under a small mound near the large one at Bledsoe's Lick, in Sumner county, which measured little short of seven feet in length. Human bones have been dug up at the plantation where Judge Overton now lives, in Davidson county, four miles southwestwardly from Nashville, in making a cellar. These bones were of extraordinary size. The under jaw bone of one skeleton was very easily slipped over the jaw of Mr Childress, a stout man, full fleshed, very robust & considerably over the common size. These bones were dug up within the traces of ancient walls, in the form of a square of two or three hundred yards in length, situated near an excellent, never failing spring of pure & well tasted water. The spring was enclosed within the walls. A great number of skeletons was found within the enclosure