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 parallel to me as I lay. But the principal Difficulty was to raie and place me in this Vehicle. Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this purpoe, and very lrong Cords of the bignes of Packthread were fatned by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs. Nine hundred of the tronget Men were employed to draw up thee Cords by many Pulleys fatned on the Poles, and thus, in les than three Hours, I was raied and flung into the Engine, and there tyed fat. All this I was told, for while the whole Operation was performing, I lay in a profound leep, by the force of that oporiferous Medicine infued into my Liquor. Fifteen Hundred of the Emperor's larget Hores, each about four Inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I aid, was half a Mile ditant.