The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chapter II

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN-(Continued).

Difference between the Sexes-Comparative Number of the Sexes at a Birth-Ext ordinary Instances of Rapid Growth-Daniel Lambert-Giants-Dwarfs-Kimo. Curious Account of the Abderites-Account of a Country in which the Inhabita: reside in Trees..

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