The Height of the Tallest Man.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 168, 16 July 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)

The Height of the Tallest Man.

Tornek, the naturalist, declared that he once saw, upon the coast of Brazil, a race of gigantic savages, one of whom was 12 feet in height. M. Thevet, of France, in his description of America, published at Paris in 1575, asserted that he Baw and measured bhe skeleton of a South American which was 11 feefc 5 inches in lengbh. "The Chinese, are said bo claim that in the last century there were men in fcheir country who measured 15 feeb-in height. Josephus mentioned the case of a Jew who was 10 feet 2 inches in height Pliny tells of an Arabian giant, Gabara, 9 feet 9 inches, the tallest man in the days of Claudius. John Middle.fcon, born at Hale in Lancashire, in the time of James 1., was 9 feet 3 inches in height;. hi 3 hand was 17 inches long and 8£ inches broad, says Dr. Plot., in his ' History of Staffordshire.' The Irish giant Murphy, contend-, porary with O'Brien, was 8 feefc 10 inches. A skeleton in tho Museum of Trinity College, Dublin, is 8 feefc 6 inches in height, and that of Charles Byrne, in fche Museum of the College of Surgeons, London, is 8 feet 4 inches. The tallest; living man is Chang-bu-Sing, the Chinese giant. . His height is 8 feet 3 inches. —'TibßiGs.' ' ' - .