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 so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant: its prodigious size made me shrink again: yet! I could not without pleasure behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length! such a breadth of animated ivory, perfectly well turn'd and fashion'd, the proud stiffness of which distended its skin, whose smooth polish and velvet-softness, might vie with that of the most delicate of our sex, and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root, through the jetty sprigs of which, the fair skin shew'd as, in a fine evening, you may have remark'd the clear light æther, throught the branch-work of distant trees, over topping the summet of a hill: then the broad and bluish-casted incarnate of the head, and blue serpentines of its veins, altogether compos'd the most striking assemblage of figure and colours in nature; in short, it stood an object of terror and delight.

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