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ACCOUNT OF THOMAS BELL.
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did not think proper to go to his owner at New York to
give an account of his vessel, but took his passage in a ship
from Halifax to London, and now serves as a pilot on the
Thames. The mate was, on account of his good conduct
during the whole of our transactions, appointed by a gentle-
man in Halifax to the command of a ship bound to the
West Indies.
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ACCOUNT OF
THOMAS BELL,
THE CAMBRIDGE GIANT.
In the preceding volumes of this work are introduced par-
ticulars of several persons who have exceeded the ordinary
stature of mankind. To this class of great men belongs the
subject of the present article, of whom a correct portrait is
annexed. Thomas Bell, generally ecalled from his native
place the Cambridge Giant, was only half the produce of
one birth. His parents are of the common size, and he
himself when young exhibited no indications of attaining his
present dimensions. His father, like his predecessors for
several generations, followed the trade of a blacksmith; and
the son, being destined for the same occupation, was ap-
prenticed to him: but his unexpected growth attracted such
numbers of curious and inquisitive persons as to interrupt
him in his business, which he therefore relinquished, and has
since travelled about the country, exhibiting himself at the
principal towns and fairs in the kingdom. The drawing
from which the portrait has been executed, was taken whilst
he was to be seen at the Hog in the Pound in Oxford Street,
in May, 1813, when he was thirty-six years of age.
The height of Thomas Bell, though considerably above
the usual standard, is not so remarkable as that of some
other individuals on record. He stands seven feet two inches;
his hands are eleven inches in length, his middle fingers six,
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did not think proper to go to his owner at New York to
give an account of his vessel, but took his passage in a ship
from Halifax to London, and now serves as a pilot on the
Thames. The mate was, on account of his good conduct
during the whole of our transactions, appointed by a gentle-
man in Halifax to the command of a ship bound to the
West Indies.
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ACCOUNT OF
THOMAS BELL,
THE CAMBRIDGE GIANT.
In the preceding volumes of this work are introduced par-
ticulars of several persons who have exceeded the ordinary
stature of mankind. To this class of great men belongs the
subject of the present article, of whom a correct portrait is
annexed. Thomas Bell, generally ecalled from his native
place the Cambridge Giant, was only half the produce of
one birth. His parents are of the common size, and he
himself when young exhibited no indications of attaining his
present dimensions. His father, like his predecessors for
several generations, followed the trade of a blacksmith; and
the son, being destined for the same occupation, was ap-
prenticed to him: but his unexpected growth attracted such
numbers of curious and inquisitive persons as to interrupt
him in his business, which he therefore relinquished, and has
since travelled about the country, exhibiting himself at the
principal towns and fairs in the kingdom. The drawing
from which the portrait has been executed, was taken whilst
he was to be seen at the Hog in the Pound in Oxford Street,
in May, 1813, when he was thirty-six years of age.
The height of Thomas Bell, though considerably above
the usual standard, is not so remarkable as that of some
other individuals on record. He stands seven feet two inches;
his hands are eleven inches in length, his middle fingers six,
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