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George le Feur, a learned German author, tells us, that in the year
1529, there lived a man in Misnia in Thuringia, named Nicholas Klumber,
an ecclesiastic and provost of the great church, that by main strength,
and without the help of a pulley or other engine, took up a pipe of wine
in a cellar, carried it into the street, and laid it upon a cart. The
same author says, That there was a man at Mantua, named Rodomus, that
could break a cable as thick as a man’s arm, with as much ease as a
brown thread.
Mr. Richard Carew in his survey of Cornwall, tells us, that a tenant of
his, named John Bray, carried about the length of a butt, at one time,
six bushels of wheat meal, at the rate of fifteen gallons to the bushel,
and a great lubberly miller twenty years of age hanging upon it. To
which he adds, that John Roman of the same county, a short clownish
grub, would carry the whole carcase of an ox upon his back, with as much
ease as another of a greater stature could carry a lamb.
Caius Marius, who was originally a cutler, and in the time of Galienus
elected emperor by the soldiers, was so strong a bodied man, that the
veins of his hands appeared like sinews. He could stop a cart drawn with
horses, and pull it backwards with his fourth finger: If he gave the
strongest man a fillip, it was felt like a blow on the forehead with a
hammer: With two fingers he could break many things twisted together.
The emperor Aurelian, as it is recorded in history by Flavius Vopiscus,
was very tall of stature, and of such wonderful strength, that in a
pitched battle against the Samaritans, he killed in one day with his own
hands forty-eight of his enemies, and in some skirmishes afterward made
them up nine hundred and fifty. When he was colonel of the sixth legion,
he made such a slaughter among the Franci, that seven hundred of them
perished by his own sword, and three hundred were sold that were taken
prisoners by himself.
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THE VICTIM OF MAGICAL DELUSION.
_OR, INTERESTING MEMOIRS OF MIGUEL, DUKE DE CA*I*A._
Unfolding Many Curious Unknown Historical Facts.
_Translated from the German of Tschink._
(Continued from page 54.)
Of the following letter only the conclusion deserves to be transcribed.
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