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lavater’s 
palace of Stanijlaus, king of Poland, at Lunemlle, 
where he had fpent the greateft part of his life. 
This dwarf was born at Plaifne, of hard-working 
w^ell-fet parents, who faid that he came into the 
world fcarcely weighing a pound and a quarter. He 
was chriftened on a plate, and had a wooden- 
flioe for his cradle. A goat was his wet-nurfe ; be- 
caufe, although his mouth was in juft proportion to 
the reft of his body, it was too fmall to grafp his 
mother’s breaft. He had compleated his fecond 
year before he could walk in ftioes an inch and a 
half long. He was about fifteen inches high at fix 
years of age; weighed thirteen pounds, feemed 
hearty, w^ell made, and comely ; but his underftand- 
ing did not pafs the bounds of inftin6f. 
At fifteen, his height was two feet five inches. 
While he grew afterwards, during four years, ac- 
cording as he approached manhood, by the ftrong 
efforts of Nature to compleat him for the purpofe 
of fulfilling the firft commandment, his faculties 
w^ere over-ftrained. Hence proceeded a gradual 
decay — the fymptoms of old age appeared — the 
back-bone gave way — his head bowed down — the 
feet grew weaker — his fhoulder-blade jutted out — 
and his nofe lengthened confiderably. 
Thus poor Bebe fickened, loft his fpirits^ and ex- 
pired in his twenty- third year. 
In 1751 there was another dwarf, at Brijioly fif- 
teen years old, two feet and a half high, bearing 
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