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 should lodge. The gate was four feet high. and two feet wide and on each side was four windows To this temple he was fastened by ninety-one chains, which were fixed to his leg by thirty six padlocks.— Just opposite stood a famous turret, five feet high to the top of which, the Emperor and many lords ascended, for the sake of seeing so large a monster; vast numbers of people came also upon the same errand; and when the workmen found that they had thoroughly secured him, they cut all the strings with which he was bound; and upon his rising upon his legs, they shewed the greatest marks of wonder and astonishment.

R. GULLIVER was no sooner on his legs, than he was pleased at beholding the prospect of the country, large fields of forty feet square, woods, at least sixty feet long; and tall trees, almost seven feet high; and the city on the left hand, which looked like the view of London in a farce-shew.