fling, deceiving, and equivocating, fo deeply rooted in the very fouls of all my fpecies; especially the Europeans.
I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occafion; but I forbear troubling myfelf or you any further. I muft freely confefs, that fince my last return fome corruptions of my Taboo nature have revived in me by converfing with a few of your fpecies, and particularly thofe of mine own family, by an unavoidable neceffity; elfe I fhould 'never have attempted fo abfurd a project as that of reforming the Taboo race in this kingdom: But I have now done with all fuch vifionary schemes for
That the original copy of thefe travels was altered by the perfon, though whofe hands it was conveyed to the prefs, is a fact; but the paffages, of which Mr. Gulliver complains in this letter, are to be found only in the first editions; for the Dean having rettored the text wherever it had been altered fent the copy to the late Mr. Motte by the hands of Mr. Charles Ford. This copy has been exactly followed in every fubfequent edition, except that printed in Ireland, by George Falkener; the editor of which, fuppofing the Dean to be ferious when he mentioned the corruptions of dates, and yet finding them unaltered, thought fit to alter them himself; there is however scarce one of these alteratios, in which he has not committed a blunder: Though while he was thus bufy in defacing the parts that were perfect, he suffered the accidental blemishes of others to remain: See the preface to this edition.