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56 kirby’s wonderful museum.
through Spilman-street, one of them strayed to the Castle-
green, whence, in his headlong course, he fell over the pre-
cipice facing the bridge, upon a house, of which the inha-
bitants were asleep in bed. It will naturally be supposed,
that the terror and alarm excited on the occasion were great.
Fortunately, however, part of the roof fell in, while the ox
was balancing athwart a beam, exactly over a bed, in which
were two children, fast asleep, and who were awakened by a
rafter falling upon the bed. The parents had hardly removed
these poor children from their perilous situation, when the
beam, giving way, fell with its burden upon the bed. Not-
withstanding all the alarm and bustle created by this occur-
rence, we are happy to add, no personal injury was sustained
on the occasion ; and what is remarkable, the ox does not
appear to have suffered materially from this extraordinary
descent.—From the Gloucester Herald.
Times, November Q7th, 1817-
THE PERUVIAN GIANT,
BASILIO HUAYLAS.
The giant Basilio Huaylas, here represented, came in
May, 1792, fiom the town of Joa, to Lima, in South Ame-
rica, and publicly exhibited himself. He is by birth an In-
dian, from the province of Casuo Virreyna, and was then
twenty four years old. He measured upward of seven Cas-
tilian Let two inches in height. I he different parts of his
body are not duly propo; tinned. From the waist, upwards,
they are of prodigiout dimensions The head forms nearly
one-ihird of his stature; his shoulders are five-sixths of an
ell in breadth ; and his aims are so iong, chut when he stands
uprigbi he ends of his fingers leach to bis knees. From
the waist, downwards, his limts are of much smaller dimen-
56 kirby’s wonderful museum.
through Spilman-street, one of them strayed to the Castle-
green, whence, in his headlong course, he fell over the pre-
cipice facing the bridge, upon a house, of which the inha-
bitants were asleep in bed. It will naturally be supposed,
that the terror and alarm excited on the occasion were great.
Fortunately, however, part of the roof fell in, while the ox
was balancing athwart a beam, exactly over a bed, in which
were two children, fast asleep, and who were awakened by a
rafter falling upon the bed. The parents had hardly removed
these poor children from their perilous situation, when the
beam, giving way, fell with its burden upon the bed. Not-
withstanding all the alarm and bustle created by this occur-
rence, we are happy to add, no personal injury was sustained
on the occasion ; and what is remarkable, the ox does not
appear to have suffered materially from this extraordinary
descent.—From the Gloucester Herald.
Times, November Q7th, 1817-
THE PERUVIAN GIANT,
BASILIO HUAYLAS.
The giant Basilio Huaylas, here represented, came in
May, 1792, fiom the town of Joa, to Lima, in South Ame-
rica, and publicly exhibited himself. He is by birth an In-
dian, from the province of Casuo Virreyna, and was then
twenty four years old. He measured upward of seven Cas-
tilian Let two inches in height. I he different parts of his
body are not duly propo; tinned. From the waist, upwards,
they are of prodigiout dimensions The head forms nearly
one-ihird of his stature; his shoulders are five-sixths of an
ell in breadth ; and his aims are so iong, chut when he stands
uprigbi he ends of his fingers leach to bis knees. From
the waist, downwards, his limts are of much smaller dimen-