Peter's idiosyncrasy was a beard which had to be looped up to prevent it trailing in the mud; Jan, at the age of forty-two, when the artist set to work upon him, weighed thirty-two stones and six pounds; while Trijntje was a maiden nine feet tall and otherwise ample.

Peter and Trijntje were, I believe, true children of Edam, but Jan was a mere import, having conveyed his bulk thither from Friesland.

Like our own Daniel Lambert, he kept an inn.

One of Trijntje's shoes is also preserved--liker to a boat than anything else.
I have by no means exhausted Edam's roll of honour.

Shipowner Osterlen must be added--a burgher, who, in 1682, when his portrait was painted, could point (and in the canvas does point, with no uncertain finger,) to ninety-two ships of which he was the possessor.