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Title: Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Caulfield, James, 1764-1826
Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography
Publisher: London, T. H. Whitely
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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whofollowed the army, under the same employ as VOL, III. F 34 MEMOIRS OF (GEORGE 11. Belgrade; but, unlike the latter, instead of alleviatingand assisting the wounded and distressed, the field ofbattle inspired her with no other feeling but plunder!in the pursuit of which, she kindly eased the wretchedvictims, (not quite dead) of their lives as well asproperty, for her own better security of enjoying the spoils. Belgrade was attended in her peregrinations bya favorite dog, named Clumsey^ who rendered himselftruly remarkable at the battle of Dettingen ; whenthe two armies faced each other, a few minutes beforethe attack began, there came a French dog from theenemies front, and immediately our English dogmet him in the interval, fell upon him, and beat himback into his line, after which he quietly returnedto us. General Burgoyne, in his opera of the Lordof the Manor, has given a description of one of theseamazons, in the spirited character of Moll Flagon. TH E NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY *
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(The Irisli ir.) REMARKABLE PERSONS. 35 AT all periods, and in every country, personshave been found greatly to exceed the ordinarystature of mankind in general. It is recorded, thatFerdinand Magellan (before he came to the Straitswhich now bear his name) came to the countryof the Patagonians, the people of which are ofa most gigantic bulk and height; some of thesehe enticed on board his ship; they were of sohuge a stature, that the Spaniards heads reachedbut to their waist. Two of them he made hisprisoners by policy; who, thereupon, roared likebulls; their feeding was answerable to their vast o bulk; for one of them did eat, at a meal, a wholebasket of biscuits, and drank a great bowl of waterat each draught. Commodore Byron, in some degree, corroboratesthe account given of the Patagonians: with, how-ever, this abatement in the size of the people, thatthe general standard they measured, was from six T 2 3(3 MEMOIRS OF (GEOROK n. feet six inches to seven feet in height, and bulk pro-p

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