Note 1 — Chapter VII · GEORGE WASHINGTON (continued 2)
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[Footnote 1: (return) Lear in his memoranda published recently in full in McClure's Magazine for February, 1898, states that Washington measured after death six feet three and one half inches in height, a foot and nine inches across the shoulders, two feet across the elbows; evidently a spare man with muscular arms, which we know to have been also of unusual length.]