The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extraordinary human skeleton.

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Extraordinary human skeleton.

--As the workmen employed in striking a foundation for the enlargements now being made in the parish church of Mullingar, Ireland, were pursuing their work at the east end of the building, they discovered, among the other remains of human beings, the perfect skeleton of a man, measuring over seven feet in length, and which appeared, from the immense size of the skull and other portions, such as the bones of the hands, jaw bone, &c., to have equalled in other dimensions its extraordinary height.--Its position was considerably deeper in mother earth than that at which human skeletons are generally found. There was barely sufficient appearance of a coffin to prove that it had received proper interment, but everything connected with it indicates its having occupied its lonely tenement for several centuries.

The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 13, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Extraordinary human skeleton.