, half a mile east of Seville."
In 1845 there was shown in Paris Joachim Eleiceigui, the Spanish
giant, who weighed 195 kilograms (429 pounds) and whose hands
were 42 cm. (16 1/2 inches) long and of great beauty. In 1882 at
the Alhambra in London there was a giantess by the name of Miss
Marian, called the "Queen of the Amazons," aged eighteen years,
who measured 2.45 meters (96 1/2 inches). William Campbell, a
Scotchman, died at Newcastle in May 1878. He was so large that
the window of the room in which the deceased lay and the
brick-work to the level of the floor had to be taken out, in
order that the coffin might be lowered with block and tackle
three stories to the ground. On January 27, 1887, a Greek,
although a Turkish subject, recently died of phthisis in
Simferopol. He was 7 feet 8 inches in height and slept on three
beds laid close together.
Giants of History.--A number of persons of great height,
particularly sovereigns and warriors, are well-known characters
of history, viz., William of Scotland, Edward III, Godefroy of
Bouillon, Philip the Long, Fairfax, Moncey, Mortier, Kleber;
there are others celebrated in modern times. Rochester, the
favorite of Charles II; Pothier, the jurist; Bank, the English
naturalist; Gall, Billat-Savarin, Benjamin Constant, the painter
David, Bellart, the geographer Delamarche, and Care, the founder
of the Gentleman's Magazine, were all men of extraordinary
stature.
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