measured eight feet some inches. The emperor, Maximin was of that size; Shenkius and Platerus, physicians of the seventeeth century, saw several of that stature; and Goropius saw a girl who was ten feet high. The body of Orestes, according to the Greeks, was eleven feet and a half; the giant Galbara, brought from Arabia to Rome, under Claudius Cæsar, was near ten feet; and the bones of Secondella and Pusio, keepers of the garden of Sallust, were but six inches shorter. Fundam, a Scotsman who lived in the time of Eugene II. king of Scotland, measured eleven feet and a half: and Jacob le Maire, in his voyage to the straits of Magellan, reports, that on the 17th of December, 1615, they found at Port Desire several graves covered with stones: and having the curiosity to remove the stones, they discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long. The chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the Peak of Teneriffe, says, that they found in one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain the head of Guanch which had eighty teeth, and that the body was not less than fifteen feet long. The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high. Rioland, a celebrated anatomist, who wrote in 1614, says, that some years before there was to be seen in the suburbs of St. Germain the tomb of the giant Isoret, who was twenty feet high. In Rouen, in 1509, in digging in the ditches, near the Dominicans, they found a stone tomb containing a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and whose shin-bone reached up to the girdle of the tallest man there, being about four feet long, and consequently the body must have been seventeen or eighteen feet high. Upon the tomb was a plate of copper, whereon was engraved, "In this tomb lies the noble and puissant lord, the chevalier Ricon de Vallemont, and his bones." Platerus, a famous physician, declares, that he saw at Lucerne the true human bones of a subject which must have been at least nineteen feet high. Valence in Dauphin boasts of possessing the bones of the giant Bucart, tyrant of the Vivarais, who was slain by an arrow by the count De Cabillon his vassal. The Dominicans had a part of the shin-bone, with the articulation of the knee, and his figure painted in fresco, with an inscription, shewing that this giant was twenty-two, feet and a half high, and that his bones were found in 1705, near the banks of the Morderi, a little river at the foot of the mountain of Crussal, upon which (tradition says) that giant dwelt.

"January 11, 1613, some masons digging near the ruins of a castle in Dauphine, in a field which (by tradition) had long been called the giant's field, at the depth of eighteen feet discovered a brick tomb, thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and

and Germans exceeded the Italians in size; and it appears that the Italians in those days were of much the same stature with the people of the present age. Among these northern nations, it is also probable, that there would be as great differences in stature as there are among the present race of men. If that can be allowed, we may easily believe that some of these barbarians might be called giants, without any great impropriety. Of this superiority of size, indeed, the historian Florus gives a notable instance in Teutobochus, above mentioned, king of Teutones: who being defeated and taken prisoner by Marius, was carried in triumph before him at Rome, when his head reached above the trophies that was carried in the same procession.

But whether these accounts are credited or not, we are very certain that the stature of the human body is by no means absolutely fixed. We are ourselves a kind of giants in comparison of the Laplander; nor are these the most diminutive people to be found upon the earth. The abbe la Chappe, in his journey into Siberia, in order to observe the last transit of Venus, passed through a village inhabited by people called Wotiacks, neither the men nor women of whom were above four feet high. The accounts of the Patagonians also, which cannot entirely be discredited, render it very probable, that somewhere in SouthAmerica there is a race of people very considerably exceeding the common size of mankind, and consequently that we cannot altogether discredit the relations of giants handed down to us by ancient authors; though what degree of credit we ought to give them, is not easy to be determined.

There is according to Mr. Morse, see his Geography, p. 611. upon the Rocky ridge, in the Island of Ceylon, a tomb of immense length. How many feet long a tomb of immense length is, would be hard to tell, but I think it not unreasonable to say twenty feet.

A WONDERFUL CONVERSION.

Conversion of a wicked sea Captain, by means, through grace, of his cabin Boy.

"A brand plucked from the burning."

A few months since, a vessel sailed from England with a captain whose habitual blasphemy, drunkenness and tyranny, so disgusted the crew, that some of the most fatal consequences might have taken place, but for the sudden and alarming illness of their cruel and depraved commander. The mate took charge

Alarmed at the idea of death, and ignorant of the way of salvation, with a conscience now thundering conviction to his soul, he cried, one morning just as Bob opened the state-room door, and affectionately inquired, Well, master, how is it with you this morning? Ah, Bob, I'm very bad, my body is getting worse and worse, but I should not mind that so much, were it not for my soul. O Bob, what shall I do? I'm a great sinner, I'm afraid I shall go to hell, I deserve it. Alas, Bob, I'm a lost man!' 'O my master,' said the boy, 'don't be alarmed; God is merciful, and I am sure you will not be lost. He knows what sailors are, and I dare say he'll save you.' 'No, Bob, no, I cannot see the least prospect of being saved. O what a sinner I have been, what will become of me? His stony heart was broken, and he poured out his complaints before the boy, who strove all he could to comfort him, but in vain.

One morning the boy just appeared, when the captain sung out, O Bob, I've been thinking of a bible, I know there is not one in the cabin, go forward, and see if you can find one in the men's chests.' The boy succeeded, and the poor dying man beheld him enter with tears of joy. Ah, Bob, that will do, that will do, you must read to me, and I shall soon know whether such a wicked man as Ican be saved, and how it is to be done. Now Bob, sit down on my chest, and read to me out of the blessed book.' 'Where shall I read, master?' 'I do not know, Bob, I cannotat present read myself; but try and pick out some places that speak about sinners and salvation.' 'Well, master, then I'll take the New-Testament: you and I shall understand it better, for as my poor mother used to say, there is not so many hard words there.' The boy read for two hours, while the captain, stretching his neck over the bed-place, listened with the eagerness of a man on the verge of eternity. Every word conveyed light to his mind, and his astonished soul soon beheld sin as he had never seen it before. The justice of God in his eternal ruin, struck him with amazing force, and though he heard of a Saviour, still the great difliculty of knowing how he could be saved, appeared a mystery uafa homable. He had been ruminating a great part of the night on some passages Bob had read, but they only served to depress his spirits, and terrify his soul. The next morning, when the boy entered the stateroom, he exclaimed, O Bob, I shall never live to reach the land, I'm dying very fast: you'll soon have to cast me overboard, but all this is nothing-my soul! my poor soul! Ah, Boh, my dear lad, what will become of my soul? OI shall be lost forever. No, no, master, don't be alarmed. I believe you will be saved yet; remember, I read many fine things yesterday about salvation." Bob, can you prey?" 'No, master, I never prayed in my life any more, than say the Lord's prayer