To the nobility and gentry : just arrived, the Child of Nature! : a most wonderful phenomema, unparalleled in the annals of history, a female child, only 11 years old, 6 feet high, weighs upwards of 13 stone, a native of Rippingdale, in the county of Lincoln : exhibited at no. 4, Pall Mall.

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To the nobility and gentry : just arrived, the Child of Nature! : a most wonderful phenomema, unparalleled in the annals of history, a female child, only 11 years old, 6 feet high, weighs upwards of 13 stone, a native of Rippingdale, in the county of Lincoln : exhibited at no. 4, Pall Mall.