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No, not that for I will not speak so discourteously of any experience in the career of a stranger and a gentleman but I am obliged to say that you could not, and you would not ever again refer to this tree as a large one, if you could behold, as I have, the great Yakmatack tree, in the island of Ounaska, sea of Kamtchatka a tree, sir, not one inch less than four hundred and fifteen feet in solid diameter! and I wish I may die in a minute if it isn't so!
Mark Twain - Roughing It

No, not that for I will not speak so discourteously of any experience in the career of a stranger and a gentleman but I am obliged to say that you could not, and you would not ever again refer to this tree as a large one, if you could behold, as I have, the great Yakmatack tree, in the island of Ounaska, sea of Kamtchatka a tree, sir, not one inch less than four hundred and fifteen feet in solid diameter! and I wish I may die in a minute if it isn't so!
Mark Twain - Roughing It, Part 8.
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