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  • Robert Hales, a giant. Wood engraving.
  • A giant, Mr. Robert Hales, named "The Yorkshire Giant," who will exhibit in Nottingham next week, is nearly eight feet in height, and weighs 462 lb.
  • Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...