The circumference of the head was 16 3/4 inches, of the neck 9 3/4, and of the thigh 10 3/4 inches.
Rice speaks of a child weighing 20 1/4 pounds at birth.

Johnston describes a male infant who was born on November 26, 1848, weighing 20 pounds, and Smith another of the same weight.

Baldwin quotes the case of a woman who after having three miscarriages at last had a child that weighed 23 pounds.

In the delivery there was extensive laceration of the anterior wall of the vagina; the cervix and perineum, together with an inch of the rectum, were completely destroyed.
Beach describes a birth of a young giant weighing 23 3/4 pounds.

Its mother was Mrs.Bates, formerly Anna Swann, the giantess who married Captain Bates.