This monster had no beard; his voice was soft; he was a moderate eater.

There was a giant exhibited in St.
Petersburg, June, 1829, 8 feet 8 inches in height, who was very thin and emaciated.
Dr.Adam Clarke, who died in 1832, measured a man 8 feet 6 inches tall.
Frank Buckland, in his "Curiosities of Natural History," says that Brice, the French giant, was 7 feet 7 inches.

Early in 1837 there was exhibited at Parma a young man formerly in the service of the King of the Netherlands who was 8 feet 10 inches high and weighed 401 pounds.
Robert Hale, the "Norfolk Giant," who died in Yarmouth in 1843 at the age of forty-three, was 7 feet 6 inches high and weighed 452 pounds.
The skeleton of Cornelius McGrath, now preserved in the Trinity College Museum, Dublin, is a striking example of gigantism.

At sixteen years he measured 7 feet 10 inches.
O'Brien or Byrne, the Irish giant, was supposed to be 8 feet 4 inches in height at the time of his death in 1783 at the age of twenty-two.
The story of his connection with the illustrious John Hunter is quite interesting.

Hunter had vowed that he would have the skeleton of O'Brien, and O'Brien was equally averse to being boiled in the distinguished scientist's kettle.