Giant Humans of the Past

"We also know that the rulers of Asia were engaged in very remote eras in executing great national works, such as tanks and canals requiring extensive excavations. In the fourteenth century of our era, (in the year 1360,) the removal of soil necessary for such under takings brought to light geological facts... The historian Ferishta, relates that fifty thousand labourers were employed in cutting through a mound... and in this mound were found the bones of elephants and men... The gigantic dimensions attributed to the human bones show them to have belonged to some of the larger pachydermata."
          -Sir Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Ch. II: Oriental Cosmogony, p. 8