When Syme had seen him, his first thought was that the weight of him must break down the balcony of stone.

His vastness did not lie only in the fact that he was abnormally tall and quite incredibly fat.

This man was planned enormously in his original proportions, like a statue carved deliberately as colossal.

His head, crowned with white hair, as seen from behind looked bigger than a head ought to be.

The ears that stood out from it looked larger than human ears.