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who wrote the acts of Joshua and David, Homer, Herodotus, [Diodomi?]] Siculus, Plutarch, all mention them. All Scythian tribes, including the Celts, Germans, Goths, Gauls, Vandals, Franks, are treated of by subsequent historians, as well as those more ancient ones, as men of gigantic stature. (Herod. Clio. 68: - Diod: Siculus, 314: - 4 Plutarch, 208: - 1 Tacit. Annal?, sec. 64 - Homers' Iliad) and they continue to be mentioned as men of great stature, till about the sixth century of the Christian era, when that mark of distinction seems to be dropped, (1 Gibbon 404: - 7 Gibbon, 99) - except as to the Huns. The European tribes of gigantic men were of tall stature, blue eyes, long flaxen hair, offensive smell & hairy".

"The Huns came into Europe in the ninth century of the Christian era. They spoke a dialect of the Sclavoninan? language, as did the Fins of Finland, who once occupied the north of Asia & Europe. The Igors, who had the use & knowledge of letters, were once settled on the banks of the Irtish, where their inscriptions are yet found.

"A similar name and language are found in the southern parts of Siberia. And the remains of the Finnic tribes are scattered from the fens of