...and now, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observd, it must have belongd to a young giant. Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even venturd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!
-- J. Cleland