Chapter Giant's Causeway to Giant's Leap of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

• KINTOLOCHUS REX was 15 feet 6 inches in height (!), 5 feet through the chest to the spine (!), and 10 feet across the shoulders (!). This, of course, is quite incredible.
  
• LA PIERRE was 7 feet 1 inch in height. He was born at Stratgard, in Denmark.
  
• LOUIS was 7 feet 4 inches in height. Called "the French giant." His left hand is preserved in the museum of the College of Surgeons.
  
• LOUISHKIN was 8 feet 5 inches in height. This Russian giant was drum-major of the Imperial Guards.
  
• MCDONALD (James) was 7 feet 6 inches in height. He was born in Cork, Ireland, and died in 1760.
  
• MCDONALD (Samuel) was 6 feet 10 inches in height. This Scotchman was usually called "Big Sam." He was the Prince of Wales's footman, and died in 1802.
  
• MAGRATH (Cornelius) was 7 feet 10 inches in height at the age of 16. He was an orphan reared by Bishop Berkeley, and died at the age of twenty (1740-1760).
  
• MAXIMI'NUS was 8 feet 6 inches in height. The Roman emperor, from 235 to 238.
  
• MELLON (Edmund) was 7 feet 6 inches in height at the age of nineteen. He was born at Port Leicester, in Ireland (1740-1760).
  
• MIDDLETON (John) was 9 feet 3 inches in height. "His hand was 17 inches long and 8 1/2 broad." He was born at Hale, Lancashire, in the reign of James I. (See above, Gabara.) (Dr. Plott: Natural History of Staffordshire, p. 295.)
  
• MILLER (Maximilian Christopher) was 8 feet in height. His hand measured 12 inches, and his forefinger was 9 inches long. This Saxon giant died in London at the age of sixty (1674-1734).
  
• MURPHY was 8 feet 10 inches in height. This Irish giant was contemporary with O'Brien (see below), and died at Marseilles.
  
• O'BRIEN, or CHARLES BYRNE, was 8 feet 4 inches in height. The skeleton of this Irish giant is preserved in the College of Surgeons. He died in Cockspur Street, London, and was contemporary with Murphy (1761-1783).
  
• O'BRIEN (Patrick) was 8 feet 7 inches in height. He died August 3, 1804, aged thirty-nine.
  
• OG, King of Bashan. According to tradition, he lived 3,000 years, and walked beside the Ark during the Flood. One of his bones formed a bridge over a river. His bed (Deuteronomy iii. 11) was 9 cubits by 4 cubits.
     If the cubit was really 21 inches, this would make the bed 15 3/4 feet by 10 1/2. The great bed of Ware, Herts, is 12 feet by 12. (See above, Eleazar - note.)
  
• OSEN (Heinrich) was 7 feet 6 inches in height at the age of 27, and weighed above 37 stone. He was born in Norway. (See above, Hardrada.)
  
• PORUS was "5 cubits in height" (7 feet 6 inches). He was an Indian king who fought against Alexander the Great near the river Hydaspes. (Quintus Curtius: De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni.)
     Whatever the Jewish cubit was, the Roman cubit was not more than 18 inches.
  
• RIECHART (J. H.) was 8 feet 4 inches in height. He was a native of Friedberg, and both his father and mother were of gigantic stature.
  
• SALMERON (Martin) was 7 feet 4 inches in height. He was called "The Mexican Giant."
  
• SAM (Big). (See Mac Donald.)
  
• SHERIDAN. (See above, Frank.)
  
• SWANN (Anne Hanen) was 7 feet 11 1/2 inches in height. She was a native of Nova Scotia.
  
• TOLLER (James) was 8 feet at the age of 24. He died in February, 1819.
  
• Josephus speaks of a Jew 10 feet 2 inches.
  
• Becanus asserts that he had seen a man nearly 10 feet high, and a woman fully 10 feet.
  
• Gasper Bauhin speaks of a Swiss 8 feet in height.
  
• Del Rio tells us he himself saw a Piedmontese in 1572 more than 9 feet in height.
  
• C. F. S. Warren, M.A. (in Notes and Queries, August 14th, 1875), tells us that his father knew a lady 9 feet in height, and adds "her head touched the ceiling of a good-sized room."
  
• Vanderbrook says he saw at Congo a black man 9 feet high.
  
• In the museum of Trinity College, Dublin, is a human skeleton 8 feet 6 inches in height.
  
• Thomas Hall, of Willingham, was 3 feet 9 inches at the age of 3.
  
• A giant was exhibited at Rouen in the early part of the eighteenth century 17 feet 10 inches (!) in height.
  
• Gorapus, the surgeon, tells us of a Swedish giantess, who, at the age of 9, was over 10 feet in height.
  
• Turner, the naturalist, tells us he saw in Brazil a giant 12 feet in height.