By LEMUEL GULLIVER, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several SHIPS. Printed by and for GEORGE FAULKNER, in Effex-street, oppofite to the Bridge. MDCCXLIII. Advertisement. R. SYMPSON'S Letter to Capt. GULLIVER, MR prefixed to this Volume, will make a long Advertisement unnecessary. Those Interpolations complained of by the Captain, were made by a Perfon fince deceased, on whofe Judgment the Publisher relyed to make any Alterations that might be thought neceffary. But this Perfon, not rightly comprehending the Scheme of the Author, nor able to imitate his plain fimple Style, thought fit, among many other Alterations and Infertions, to compliment the Memory of her late Majefty, by faying, That the governed without a Chief Minifter. We are affured, that the Copy fent to the Bookfeller in London, was a Transcript of the Original, which Original being in the Poffeffion of a very worthy Gentleman in London, and a most intimate Friend of the Author's; after be bad bought the Book in Sheets, and compared it with the Originals, bound it up with blank Leaves, and made thofe Corrections, which the Reader will find in our Edition. For, the fame Gentleman did us the Favour to let us tranfcribe his Corrections. VOL. III. A |