of which I could have eafily crept, and covered my whole Body. There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks; and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty Foot high. But, the most hateful Sight of all, was the Lice crawling on their Clothes: I could fee diftinctly the Limbs of these Vermin with my naked Eye, much better than thofe of an European Loufe through a Microscope; and their Snouts with which they rooted like Swine. They were the firft I had ever beheld; and I fhould have been curious enough to diffect one of them, if I had proper Inftruments (which I unluckily left behind me in the Ship) although indeed the Sight was fo naufeous, that it perfectly turned my Stomach.

BESIDE the large Box in which I was usually carried, the Queen ordered a smaller one to be made for me, of about twelve Foot fquare, and ten high, for the Convenience of travelling; because the other was fomewhat too large for Glumdalclitch's Lap, and cumbersome in the Coach; it was made by the fame Artist, whom I directed in the whole Contrivance. This travelling Closet was an exact Square, with a Window in the Middle of three of the Squares, and each Window was latticed with Iron Wire on the outfide, to prevent Accidents in long Journeys. On the fourth Side, which had no Window, two ftrong Staples were fixed, through which, the Perfon that carried me, when I had a Mind to be on Horseback, put in a Leathern Belt, and buckled it about his Waift. This was always the Office of fome grave trufty Servant, in whom I could confide, whether I attended the King and Queen in their Progreffes, or were difpofed to fee the Gardens, or pay a Vifit to fome great Lady or Minifter of State in the Court, when Glumdalclitch happened

happened to be out of Order: For I foon began to be known and esteemed among the greatest Officers, I fuppofe more upon Account of their Majefties Favour, than any Merit of my own. In Journeys, when I was weary of the Coach, a Servant on Horfeback would buckle my Box, and place it on a Cushion before him; and there I had a full Profpect of the Country on three Sides from my three Windows. I had in this Closet a Field-Bed, and a Hammock hung from the Cieling, two Chairs and a Table, neatly fcrewed to the Floor, to prevent being toffed about by the Agitation of the Horse or the Coach. And having been long ufed to SeaVoyages, these Motions, although sometimes very violent, did not much discompose me.

WHENEVER I had a Mind to fee the Town, it was always in my Travelling-Clofet; which Glumdalclitch held in her Lap, in a kind of open Sedan, after the Fashion of the Country, born by four Men, and attended by two others in the Queen's Livery. The People who had often heard of me, were very curious to croud about the Sedan; and the Girl was complaifant enough to make the Bearers ftop, and to take me in her Hand, that I might be more conveniently feen.

I WAS very defirous to see the chief Temple, and particularly the Tower belonging to it, which is reckoned the higheft in the Kingdom. Accordingly one Day my Nurfe carried me thither, but I may truly fay I came back difappointed; for, the Height is not above three thousand Foot, reckoning from the Ground to the highest Pinnacle Top; which allowing for the Difference between the Size of thofe People, and us in Europe, is no great matter for Admiration, nor at all equal in Proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury Steeple. But, not

to

to detract from a Nation, to which during my Life I fhall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed, that whatever this famous Tower wants in Height, is amply made up in Beauty and Strength. For, the Walls are near an hundred Foot thick, built of hewen Stone, whereof each is about forty Foot square, and adorned on all Sides with Statues of Gods and Emperors, cut in Marble, larger than the Life, placed in their several Niches. I measured a little Finger which had fallen down from one of these Statues, and lay unperceived among fome Rubbish; and found it exactly four Foot and an Inch in Length. Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in a Handkerchief, and carried it Home in her Pocket, to keep among other Trinkets, of which the Girl was very fond, as Children at her Age usually are.

THE King's Kitchen is indeed a noble Building, vaulted at Top, and about fix hundred Foot high. The great Oven is not fo wide by ten Faces as the Cupola at St. Paul's: For I measured the latter on Purpose after my Return. But if I fhould defcribe the Kitchen-Grate, the prodigious Pots and Kettles, the Joints of Meat turning on the Spits, with many other Particulars; perhaps I fhould be hardly believed; at leaft, a fevere Critick would be apt to think I enlarged a little, as Travellers are often fufpected to do. To avoid which Cenfure, I fear I have run too much into the other Extreme; and that if this Treatife should happen to be tranflated into the Language of Brobdingnag, (which is the general Name of that Kingdom) and tranfmitted thither, the King and his People would have Reason to complain, that I had done them an Injury, by a falfe and diminutive Representation.

His Majefty feldom keeps above fix hundred Horfes in his Stables: They are generally from fifty

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four to fixty Foot high. But, when he goes abroad on folemn Days, he is attended for State, by a Militia Guard of five hundred Horse, which indeed I thought was the moft fplendid Sight that could be ever beheld, until I faw part of his Army in Battalia; whereof I fhall find another Occafion to speak.

VOL. III.

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CHAP.

CHA P. V.

Several Adventures that happened to the Author. The Execution of a Criminal. The Author fhews his Skill in Navigation.

SHOULD have lived happy enough in that Country, if my Littlenefs had not expofed me to feveral ridiculous and troublesome Accidents; fome of which I fhall venture to relate. Glumdalclitch often carried me into the Gardens of the Court in my fmaller Box, and would sometimes take me out of it and hold me in her Hand, or fet me down to walk. I remember before the Dwarf left the Queen, he followed us one Day into thofe Gardens; and my Nurse having fet me down, he and I being close together, near fome Dwarf Apple-Trees, I muft need fhew my Wit by a filly Allufion between him and the Trees, which happens to hold in their Language as it doth in ours. Whereupon, the malicious Rogue watching his Opportunity, when I was walking under one of them, fhook it directly over my Head, by which a dozen Apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol Barrel, came tumbling about my

Ears;