7th, THAT the faid Man-Mountain fhall, at his times of leifure, be aiding and affifting to our Workmen, in helping to raise certain great Stones, towards covering the Wall of the principal Park, and other our Royal Buildings.

8th, THAT the faid Man-Mountain fhall, in two Moons time, deliver in an exact Survey of the Circumference of our Dominions by a Computation of his own Paces round the Coast.

LASTLY, That upon his folemn Oath to observe all the above Articles, the faid Man-Mountain fhall have a daily Allowance of Meat and Drink fufficient for the Support of 1724 of our Subjects, with free Accefs to our Royal Perfon, and other Marks of our Favour, Given at our Palace at Belfaborac the twelfth Day of the Ninety-firft Moon of our Reign.

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I fwore and fubfcribed to thefe Arties with great Chearfulness and Content, although fome of them were not fo honourable as I could have wifhed; which proceeded wholly from the Malice of Skyresh Bolgolam the High Admiral whereupon my Chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty; the Emperor himself in Person did me the Honour to be by at the whole Ceremony. I made my Acknowledgments by proftrating myself at his Majefty's Feet: But he commanded me to rife; and after many gracious Expreffions, which, to avoid the Censure of Vanity, I fhall not repeat, he added, that he hoped I should prove a useful Servant, and well deferve all the Favours he had already conferred upon me, or might do for the future.

THE Reader may please to observe, that in the last Article for the Recovery of my Liberty, the Emperor ftipulates

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to allow me a Quantity of Meat and Drink fufficient for the Support of 1724 Lilliputians. Some time after, asking a Friend at Court how they came to fix on that determinate Number; he told me, that his Majefty's Mathematicians, having taken the Height of my Body by the help of a Quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the Proportion of Twelve to One, they concluded. from the Similarity of their Bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and confequently would require as much. Food as was neceffary to fupport that number of Lilliputians. By which, the Reader may conceive an Idea of the Ingenuity of that People, as well as the prudent and exact Oeconomy of fo great a Prince,

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CHA P. IV.

Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, defcribed, together with the Emperor's Palace. A Converfation between the Author and a Principal Secretary, concerning the Affairs of that Empire: The Author's Offers to ferve the Emperor in his Wars.

HE firft Request I made after I had obtained my Liberty, was, that I might have licence to fee Mildendo, the Metropolis; which the Emperor easily granted me, but with a fpccial Charge to do no hurt, either to the Inhabitants, or their Houfes. The People had notice by Proclamation of my defign to vifit the Town. The Wall which encompaffed it, is two foot and an half

high, and at least eleven Inches broad, fo that a Coach and Horses may be driven very fafely round it; and it is flanked with ftrong Towers at ten foot distance. I ftept over the great Western Gate, and paffed very gently, and fideling through the two principal Streets, only in my fhort Waistcoat, for fear of damaging the Roofs and Eves of the Houfes with the Skirts of my Coat. I walked with the utmost Circumfpection, to avoid treading on any Stragglers, that might remain in the Streets, although the Orders were very strict, that all People fhould keep in their Houses, at their own peril. The Garret-windows and Tops of Houses were fo crowded with Spectators, that I thought in all my Travels I had not feen a more populous Place. The City is an exact Square, each fide of the Wall being five hundred foot long. The two great Streets which run crofs and divide it into four Quarters, are five foot wide. The Lanes and Alleys which I could not enter, but only viewed them as I paffed, are from