whereof each is about forty Foot square, and adorned on all fides with Statues of Gods and Emperors cut in Marble larger than the Life, placed in their feveral Nich. es. 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 an 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 ufually are.

THE King's Kitchen is indeed a noble Building, vaulted at top, and about fix hundred Foot high.

not fo wide by ten

The great Oven is Paces 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

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hardly believed; at least 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 extream; 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 Repre sentation.

His Majefty feldom keeps above fix hun dred Horfes in his Stables: They are generally from fifty four to fixty Foot high. But when he goes abroad on fo lemn Days, he is attended for State by a Militia Guard of five hundred Horfe, which indeed I thought was the most fplendid Sight that could be ever beheld, till I faw part of his Army in Battalia, whereof I fhall find another occafion to fpeak.

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CHAP. V.

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

SHOULD have lived happy eI nough in that Country, if my Littleness had not exposed me to several ridiculous and troublefome Accidents: fome of which I fhall ventre 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 those Gardens, and my Nurse having fet me down, he and I being close together, near fome Dwarf Apple trees, I must need fhew my Wit

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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; one of them hit me on the Back as I chanced to ftoop, and knocked me down flat on my Face, but I received no other hurt, and the Dwarf was pardoned at my Defire, because I had given the Provocati

on.

ANOTHER day Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth Grafs-plot to divert my felf while fhe walked at fome dif tance with her Governefs. In the mean time there fuddenly fell fuch a violent fhower of Hail, that I was immediately by the force of it ftruck to the Ground And when I was down, the Hail-ftones gave me fuch cruel Bangs all over the

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Body, as if I had been pelted with Tennis balls; however I made a fhift to creep on all four, and fhelter my self by lying flat on my Face on the Leefide of a Border of Lemon Thyme, but fo bruifed from Head to Foot that I could not go abroad in ten Days. Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because Nature in that Country observing the fame Proportion thro' all her Operations, a Hail-ftone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe, which I can affert upon Experience, having been fo curious to weigh and meafure them.

BUT, a more dangerous Accident happened to me in the fame Garden, when my little Nurse believing fhe had put me in a fecure Place, which I often entreated her to do, that I might enjoy my own Thoughts, and having left my Box at home to avoid the Trouble of carrying it, went to another part of the Gardens with her Governess and fome Ladies

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