372 DIFFERENCES OF STATURE. 



same height. Gilly, who was exhibited as a show, mea- 

 sured 8 feet (Swedish*). J. H. Reichardt, of Friedberg 

 near Frankfort, was 8 feet 3 inches : his father and sister 

 were both gigantic f. Several Irishmen, measuring from 7 

 to 8 feet and upwards, have been exhibited in this country. 

 The individual whose skeleton is in the College Museum 

 was 8 feet 4 inches. 



A female of Stargard, named La Pierre, was 7 f'^^t 

 (Danish t). 



Martin Salmeron, a well-proportioned Mexican giant, 

 the son of a Mestizo by an Indian woman, measures 7 feet 

 3| inches, and is well proportioned §. 



Bebe, the dwarf of Stanislaus, King of Poland, was 33 

 inches (French), and well-proportioned. His spine became 

 curved as he approached manhood ; he grew weak, and died 

 at twenty-three ||. 



The Polish nobleman, Borwlaski, who was well-made, 

 clever, and skilled in languages, measured 28 Paris inches. 

 He had a brother of 34 inches, and a sister of 21 ^[. 



A Friesland peasant at twenty-six years of age had 

 reached 29 Amsterdam inches. C. H. Stoberin, of Nu- 

 remberg, was nearly 3 feet high at twenty, well propor- 

 tioned, and possessed of talents. Her parents, brothers, 

 and sisters, were dwarfs **. 



Of numerous other instances on record, most seem to 

 have been diseased, and particularly rickety individuals ; so 

 that they may be classed among pathological phenomena. 

 The men who have considerably exceeded the ordinary 

 standard, have neither possessed those proportions in their 

 form which we account elegant, nor has their strength by 



• jibhandl. der Konigl. Schvced. Akademie ; 1765. p. 319. 

 + LuDWiG Naturgeschichte der Menschen-Species, p. 151. 

 X Ibid. See also Haller, Eltm. P/iysiol. Vih. SO. sect. 1. ^ 17. 

 ^ Humboldt's Political Essay, book ii. chap. 6. 

 II BuFFON, Hist. Nat. t. 15. p. 176. 



H Memoirs of the celebrated Dwarf, Jos. Boriclaski, &c. Lond. 178S. 

 ** Lavater's Physiognom. Fragment. 4. p. 72. Ludwig Naturges- 

 chichte, &c. p. 154. 



