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two Irish giants-twin brothers-exhibited themselves
to visitors at a shilling per head, from four
till nine every evening, Sundays excepted. ? These
wonderful Irish giants are but twenty-three years
of age, and measure nearly eight feet high,? according
to the newspapers. ?? These extraordinary
young men have had the honour to be seen by
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inches high); and the late Swedish giant will
scarce admit of comparison.?
Of these Irish giants, whose advent is among
the first notabilia of Princes Street, Kay gives
us a full-page drawing in his first volume, including,
by, way of contrast, Lord Monboddo, Bailie Kyd,
a wine merchant in the Candlemaker Row, who
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their ma,jesties and the royal family at Windsor, in
November, 1783, with great applause, and likewise
by gentlemen of the faculty, Royal Society, and
other admirers of natural curiosity, who allow them
to surpass anything of the kind ever offered (xi.) to
the public. Their address is singularly pleasing ;
their persons truly shaped and proportioned to
their height, and afford an agreeable surprise.
They excel the famous Maximilian Miller, born in
1674, shown in London in 1733 (six feet ten
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died in 18r0, Andrew Bell, an engraver (who died
in Lauriston Lane in 18og), and others of very small
stature.
In 1811 this house and No. I were both hotels,
the former being named ?The Crown,? and from
them both, the ?Royal Eagle? and ?Prince Regent??
Glasgow stagecoaches started daily at g am. and
4 p.m. ?? every lawful clay-??
Taking the houses of note as they occur seriatim,
the first on the north side, No. 10-for some time a
