Eve Was Two Hundred Feet High
The Talmud says(see Bariug-Gould's "Legends of the Patriarchs and Propbets") that Adam was so tall he "conld stand with bis feet on the earth and bis head iu heaven," and tbat "God pressed hiia down at the time of the fall. " The Arabs say that Adam was 312 feet high, and that Eve was exactly 200 feet froru the soles of her feet to the crowu of her head. These same people also claim that Eve's tomb ruay uow be seen at Jiddah, a seaport of Mecca, and that its great size (206 feet in length and 17% iii breadth) bears them ont in the assertiou that she was the most gigantio womaa the earth has ever known or wil] ever know. Ou each 3d of Juue, the anuiversary of the death of Abel, according to Arabiau tradition, the door of the temple vvbich has been built at the entrance to this gigantic tomb of our first mother stays opeu all night in spite of the =ffortsof the keepers to close it, and the most terrible cries of anguish issue froin the sepulcherof the giantess, vtho bas been sleeping more than 6,000 years. -
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