Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ages. Near-ly all races have transmitted to posteritysome account of exceptionally enormousspecimens of the race, and in some tra-ditions we have accounts of Maxima of whole tribes conforming to ^:^l^the gigantic pattern. It ^ impossible to give an authentic aver-age for the stature of the so-called DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 569 giants of antiquitj^. Goliath of Gathwas reputed to be nine feet nine
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ages. Near-ly all races have transmitted to posteritysome account of exceptionally enormousspecimens of the race, and in some tra-ditions we have accounts of Maxima of whole tribes conforming to ^:^l^the gigantic pattern. It ^ impossible to give an authentic aver-age for the stature of the so-called DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 569 giants of antiquitj^. Goliath of Gathwas reputed to be nine feet nine incliesin height. AVe have liints in Homer oftowering warriors who might well becalled gigantic. Some of the largestspecimens of the human race have inmodern times been brought out ofSyria. The Teutones and Gauls were,among barbarians, notoriously huge ick William I. His regiment, knownas the Potsdam Guards, was made upof men gathered from all parts ofEurope, the smallest of whom was overseven feet in height. They reacheda maximum of nine feet, and it isperhaps not beyond the truth to as-sign an average of eight feet for thewhole regiment. We may accept AN ARAB STEED (GREATEST REMOVE FROM PRIMITIVE TYPE).—Drawn by T. F. Z in body. The paragraph in CassarsGallic War, wherein he recites theridicule which the Gaulish warriors ofthe Aduatuci bestowed on his Romanlegionaries on account of their diminu-tive stature {brcvitas nostra), will not beforgotten. The most conspicuous example of an assemblage, or collection, of giants within the historical era was that resulting from the caprice of Freder- 37 then, as the viaximum stature of ourrace, though possibly exceptional in-stances may have shown greater the Blacks have contributedany specimens worthy to be classified asgiants can not be stated Largest exam-with certainty. Among the SsarngBrown races, the most con- the Browns,spicuous examples of greatness of sizeare given by the Asiatic Mongoloids inPatagonia
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