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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Domestic News December 11, 1772
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Report of Israel Remington, a young giant in Hingham, about 5 ft tall and over 200 lbs, with extra fingers and toes, expected in town in a few days.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 98.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 95.86% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 98.7% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
We hear there is a very remarkable boy or young Giant, now living in the town of Hingham, where he was born in the Year 1758: His name is Israel Remington, and his amazing size for a person of his age, as well as strange features, has attracted the attention of multitudes: He is about 5 feet in height, is remarkably strong, and weighs upwards of 200 weight; has five fingers and a thumb on each hand, and six toes on each foot. It is thought if he should continue to increase in height and size at such an amazing rate as he has within these few years, he will be 10 feet high, and weigh 400 weight by the time he is 21 years old.----It is said he is expected in town in a few days.
What keywords are associated?
Israel Remington
Young Giant
Hingham
Extra Fingers And Toes
What entities or persons were involved?
Israel Remington
Where did it happen?
Hingham
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Hingham
Event Date
Now; Expected In Town In A Few Days
Key Persons
Israel Remington
Outcome
about 5 ft tall, weighs over 200 lbs, has five fingers and a thumb on each hand and six toes on each foot; predicted to reach 10 ft and 400 lbs by age 21.