WITH An Account of Men noted for their Corpulency, and other interesting matter . Decorative line NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL WOOD & SONS, NO. 261, PEARL-STREET; And Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market-street, Baltimore. 1818. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL WOOD & SONS, NO. 261, PEARL-STREET; And Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market-street, Baltimore. 1818....

Decorative line Daniel Lambert was born on the 13 of March, 1770, in the Parish of St. Margaret, at Leicester. From the extraordinary bulk to which he attained, the reader may be naturally disposed to inquire, whether or no his parents were persons of remarkable dimensions. This was not the case; nor were any of his family inclined to corpulence, excepting an uncle and aunt on the father’s side, who were both very heavy. The former died during the infancy of Lambert, in the capacity of gamekeepe