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exaggerated, while we have a right to regai'd as authentic giants whose 

 height runs up to eight and a half feet. A giant eight feet high was 

 exhibited at Rouen in 1755. A Swedish peasant, cited by Buffon, was 

 eight feet and eight lines in height, and the stature of the Finnish 

 giant Cujanus was the same ; while Frederick William, King of Prus- 

 sia, had a guard of nearly equal stature. The giant, Gille de Trent, in 

 the Tyrol, and one of the guards of the Duke of Brunswick, were more 

 than eight feet four inches in height. The Grecian giant, Amanab, 

 now eighteen years old, is seven feet eight inches tall ; the Chinese 

 giant, Chang, eight feet three inches. The Austrian giant, Winckel- 

 meier, who was recently exhibited in Paris, measuring eight and a half 

 feet, may be regarded as a specimen of the highest stature attained by 

 the human species. At the opposite extremes may be found numerous 

 dwarfs not more than twenty inches, and some even as little as sixteen 

 and even twelve inches in height ; but such dwarfs are only monsters 

 with atrophied limbs or twisted back-bones, or stunted infants, whose 

 age is usually exaggerated by their Barnums. One of the most remark- 

 able dwarfs on record was the celebrated Borulawsky, who was born 

 in 1789, and died in 1837, who was never more than twenty-eight 

 inches in height, was perfect in every limb and proportion, and was 

 bright and intelligent. 



The mean between these two extremes of stature is about five feet 

 five and a half inches, and the difference between them is six feet one 

 and a half inch. The mean height is nearly the same with the average 

 stature of Frenchmen. We give an illustration embodying a compara- 

 tive representation of these extremes, with three intervals between 



Fig. 2. Variations in Human Stature. The piant Winckelmeier. 2-60 metres. A cuirassier, 

 1-80 m. A man of the average size, 166 m. A little soldier, 154 in. The dwarf Borulawsky, 

 0-75 m. A new-born babe, 0-50 m. 



