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CHAPTER VII
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Therese lived to be seventy-three, and both she and her sister measured only 30 inches in height.

She died in 1819.
Aldrovandus gives a picture of a famous dwarf of the Duc de Crequi who was only 30 inches tall, though perfectly formed; he also speaks of some dwarfs who were not over 2 feet high.
There was a Polish gentleman named Joseph Borwilaski, born in 1739 who was famed all over Europe.

He became quite a scholar, speaking French and German fairly well.

In 1860, at the age of twenty-two, and 28 inches in height, he married a woman of ordinary stature, who bore him two infants well conformed.

He was exhibited in many countries, and finally settled at Durham, England, where he died in 1837 at the almost incredible age of ninety-eight, and is buried by the side of the Falstaffian Stephen Kemble.


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