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And look at that body! Its wonderful breadth, its great depth; the almost huge neck; the large hands; everything suggestive of uncommon vitality and unusual physical vigor. No wonder he lived to be eighty, and worked at a great pace all the time, and on the most abstruse and important questions. No feeble body could have ever stood what he went through. It would have given out many years before.

"Stands with the great majority as the one man that, like Saul, is higher from the shoulders and upward than any of his fellows. Born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1780. His grandfather was six feet eight inches in height; and his father