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CHAPTER VII
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He died in 1724 at the age of twenty-eight, weighing 530 pounds.

In 1815 there died in Trenaw, in Cornwall, a person known as "Giant Chillcot." He measured at the breast 6 feet 9 inches and weighed 460 pounds.

One of his stockings held 6 gallons of wheat.

In 1822 there was reported to be a Cambridge student who could not go out in the daytime without exciting astonishment.

The fat of his legs overhung his shoes like the fat in the legs of Lambert and Bright.


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