says that there was a young colossus exhibited
opposite the Mansion House in London who was 7 feet high, although but
fifteen years old. In the same paper on January 31, 1753, is an account
of MacGrath, whose skeleton is still preserved in Dublin. In the reign
of George I, during the time of the Bartholomew Fair at Smithfield,
there was exhibited an English man seventeen years old who was 8 feet
tall.

Nicephorus tells of Antonius of Syria, in the reign of Theodosius, who
died at the age of twenty-five with a height of 7 feet 7 inches.
Artacaecas, in great favor with Xerxes, was the tallest Persian and
measured 7 feet. John Middleton, born in 1752 at Hale, Lancashire,
humorously called the "Child of Hale," and whose portrait is in
Brasenose College, Oxford, measured 9 feet 3 inches tall. In his
"History of Ripton," in Devonshire, 1854, Bigsby gives an account of a
discovery in 1687 of a skeleton 9 feet long. In 1712 in a village in
Holland there died a fisherman named Gerrit Bastiaansen who was 8 feet
high and weighed 500 pounds. During Queen Anne's reign there was shown
in London and other parts of England a most peculiar anomaly--a German
giantess without hands or feet who threaded a needle, cut gloves, etc.
About 1821 there was issued an engraving of Miss Angelina Melius,
nineteen years of age and 7 feet high, attended by her page, Senor Don
Santiago de los Santos, from the Island of Manilla, thirty-live years
old and 2 feet 2 inches high. "The Annual Register" records the death
of Peter Tuchan at Posen on June 18, 1825, of dropsy of the chest. He
was twenty-nine years old and 8 feet 7 inches in height; he began to
grow at the age of seven. This monster had no beard; his voice was
soft; he was a moderate eater. There was a giant exhibited in St.
Petersburg, June, 1829, 8 feet 8 inches in height, who was very thin
and emaciated.

Dr. Adam Clarke, who died in 1832, measured a man 8 feet 6 inches tall.
Frank Buckland, in his "Curiosities of Natural History," says that
Brice, the French giant, was 7 feet 7 inches. Early in 1837 there was
exhibited at Parma a young man formerly in the service of the King of
the Netherlands who was 8 feet 10 inches high and weighed 401 pounds.
Robert Hale, the "Norfolk Giant," who died in Yarmouth in 1843 at the
age of forty-three, was 7 feet 6 inches high and weighed 452 pounds.
The skeleton of Cornelius McGrath, now preserved in the Trinity College
Museum, Dublin, is a striking exampl