[A short and correct account of the life of James Henry Lambier ... the American giant.] / [James Henry Lambier].

  • Lambier, James Henry, 1783-
Date:
[1825?]
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Credit: [A short and correct account of the life of James Henry Lambier ... the American giant.] / [James Henry Lambier]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SHORT AND CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF JAMES HENRY LAMBXER, Late Captain in the French Imperial Mameluke Hora* Guards, and now Travelling this Kingdom under the Denomination of THE AMERICAN GIANT. \ Ladies, and Gentlemen, Allow me the honour to inform you, that I am the offspring of an ancient Scottish family; my forefathers, of the name of Campbell, weie originally inhabitants of the Highlands, in Ar- gyleshire, until the troublesome times in 1745, when they became exiles of Scotland, and emi¬ grated to America ; when they took the name of Lambirih, to inherit a laige.property in the West India Islands, left to my grandfather, by the will ! of a distant relative; (by which name in Ftench”