feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on thefe engines three or four hundred yards to the fea. Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately fet at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about feven feet long and four wide, moving upon twenty-two wheels. The fhout I heard was upon the ar rival of this engine, which it feems set out in four hours after my landing. It was brought parallel to me, as I lay. But the principal difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle. Eighty poles, each of one foot high, were erected for this purpose, and very strong cords of the bigness of packthread were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs. Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw ар thefe cords by many pullies faftened on the poles, and thus, in less than three hours, I was raifed and flung into the engine, and there tied faft. All this I was told, for, while the whole operation was performing, I lay in a profound fleep by the force of that foporiferous medicine infused into my liquor. Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horfes, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the metropolis, which, as I faid, was half a mile distant.

About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the car

riage being stopt a while to adjust fomething, that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiofity to fee how I looked, when I was afleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very foftly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left noftril, which tickled my nofe like a straw, and made me sneeze violently whereupon they ftole off unperceived, and it was three weeks, before I knew the cause of my awaking fo fuddenly. We made a long march the remaining part of the day, and refted at night with five hundred guards on each fide of me, half with torches, and half with bows and arrows, ready to fhoot me, if I should offer to ftir. The next morning at fun-rife we continued our march, and arrived within two hundred yards of the city-gates about noon. The emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us, but his great officers would by no means fuffer his majefly to endanger his perfon by mounting on my body.

At the place where the carriage ftopt, there flood an ancient temple, efteemed to be the

a It has been remarked, that courage in whatever caufe, though it fometimes excites indignation, is never the object of contempt; but this appears to be true, only becaufe courage is fuppofed to imply fuperiority: for this officer in the guards becomes extremely ridiculous and contemptible by an act of the most daring curi

ofity, which fets him in comparifon with Gulliver; to whom he was fo much inferior, that a blaft of the man-mountain's noftrils would have endangered his life; and if heroifm itfelf is not proof against ridicule, thofe furely are Lilliputians in philofophy, who confider ridicule as the teft of truth,

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largest in the whole kingdom, which having been polluted fome years before by an unnatural mur der, was according to the zeal of those people looked upon as prophane, and therefore had been applied to common ufe, and all the ornaments and furniture carried away. In this edifice it was determined I should lodge. The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almoft two feet wide, through which I could eafily creep. On each fide of the gate was a fmall window, not above fix inches from the ground: into that on the left fide the king's fmith conveyed fourfcore and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almoft as large, which were locked to my left leg with fix and thirty padlocks. Over-against this temple, on the other fide of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a turret at leaft five feet high. Here the emperor afcended with many principal lords of his court to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not fee them. It was reckoned, that above an hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the fame errand; and in fpite of my guards, I believe, there could not be fewer than ten thousand at several times, who mounted my body by the help of ladders. But a proclamation was foon iffued to forbid it upon pain of death. When the workmen found it was impoffible for me to break loose, they cut all the ftrings that bound me; whereupon I rofe up with as melancholy a difpofition, as ever I

had