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On
these
packthreads
the
people
strung
their
petitions
,
which
mounted
up
directly
,
like
the
scraps
of
paper
fastened
by
school
boys
at
the
end
of
the
string
that
holds
their
kite
.
Sometimes
we
received
wine
and
victuals
from
below
,
which
were
drawn
up
by
pulleys
.
The
knowledge
I
had
in
mathematics
,
gave
me
great
assistance
in
acquiring
their
phraseology
,
which
depended
much
upon
that
science
,
and
music
;
and
in
the
latter
I
was
not
unskilled
.
Their
ideas
are
perpetually
conversant
in
lines
and
figures
.
If
they
would
,
for
example
,
praise
the
beauty
of
a
woman
,
or
any
other
animal
,
they
describe
it
by
rhombs
,
circles
,
parallelograms
,
ellipses
,
and
other
geometrical
terms
,
or
by
words
of
art
drawn
from
music
,
needless
here
to
repeat
.
I
observed
in
the
king
's
kitchen
all
sorts
of
mathematical
and
musical
instruments
,
after
the
figures
of
which
they
cut
up
the
joints
that
were
served
to
his
majesty
's
table
.
Their
houses
are
very
ill
built
,
the
walls
bevil
,
without
one
right
angle
in
any
apartment
;
and
this
defect
arises
from
the
contempt
they
bear
to
practical
geometry
,
which
they
despise
as
vulgar
and
mechanic
;
those
instructions
they
give
being
too
refined
for
the
intellects
of
their
workmen
,
which
occasions
perpetual
mistakes
.
And
although
they
are
dexterous
enough
upon
a
piece
of
paper
,
in
the
management
of
the
rule
,
the
pencil
,
and
the
divider
,
yet
in
the
common
actions
and
behaviour
of
life
,
I
have
not
seen
a
more
clumsy
,
awkward
,
and
unhandy
people
,
nor
so
slow
and
perplexed
in
their
conceptions
upon
all
other
subjects
,
except
those
of
mathematics
and
music
.
They
are
very
bad
reasoners
,
and
vehemently
given
to
opposition
,
unless
when
they
happen
to
be
of
the
right
opinion
,
which
is
seldom
their
case
.
Imagination
,
fancy
,
and
invention
,
they
are
wholly
strangers
to
,
nor
have
any
words
in
their
language
,
by
which
those
ideas
can
be
expressed
;
the
whole
compass
of
their
thoughts
and
mind
being
shut
up
within
the
two
forementioned
sciences
.
Most
of
them
,
and
especially
those
who
deal
in
the
astronomical
part
,
have
great
faith
in
judicial
astrology
,
although
they
are
ashamed
to
own
it
publicly
.
But
what
I
chiefly
admired
,
and
thought
altogether
unaccountable
,
was
the
strong
disposition
I
observed
in
them
towards
news
and
politics
,
perpetually
inquiring
into
public
affairs
,
giving
their
judgments
in
matters
of
state
,
and
passionately
disputing
every
inch
of
a
party
opinion
.
I
have
indeed
observed
the
same
disposition
among
most
of
the
mathematicians
I
have
known
in
Europe
,
although
I
could
never
discover
the
least
analogy
between
the
two
sciences
;
unless
those
people
suppose
,
that
because
the
smallest
circle
has
as
many
degrees
as
the
largest
,
therefore
the
regulation
and
management
of
the
world
require
no
more
abilities
than
the
handling
and
turning
of
a
globe
;
but
I
rather
take
this
quality
to
spring
from
a
very
common
infirmity
of
human
nature
,
inclining
us
to
be
most
curious
and
conceited
in
matters
where
we
have
least
concern
,
and
for
which
we
are
least
adapted
by
study
or
nature
.
These
people
are
under
continual
disquietudes
,
never
enjoying
a
minutes
peace
of
mind
;
and
their
disturbances
proceed
from
causes
which
very
little
affect
the
rest
of
mortals
.
Their
apprehensions
arise
from
several
changes
they
dread
in
the
celestial
bodies
:
for
instance
,
that
the
earth
,
by
the
continual
approaches
of
the
sun
towards
it
,
must
,
in
course
of
time
,
be
absorbed
,
or
swallowed
up
;
that
the
face
of
the
sun
,
will
,
by
degrees
,
be
encrusted
with
its
own
effluvia
,
and
give
no
more
light
to
the
world
;
that
the
earth
very
narrowly
escaped
a
brush
from
the
tail
of
the
last
comet
,
which
would
have
infallibly
reduced
it
to
ashes
;
and
that
the
next
,
which
they
have
calculated
for
one-and-thirty
years
hence
,
will
probably
destroy
us
.
For
if
,
in
its
perihelion
,
it
should
approach
within
a
certain
degree
of
the
sun
(
(
as
by
their
calculations
they
have
reason
to
dread
)
)
it
will
receive
a
degree
of
heat
ten
thousand
times
more
intense
than
that
of
red
hot
glowing
iron
,
and
in
its
absence
from
the
sun
,
carry
a
blazing
tail
ten
hundred
thousand
and
fourteen
miles
long
,
through
which
,
if
the
earth
should
pass
at
the
distance
of
one
hundred
thousand
miles
from
the
nucleus
,
or
main
body
of
the
comet
,
it
must
in
its
passage
be
set
on
fire
,
and
reduced
to
ashes
:
that
the
sun
,
daily
spending
its
rays
without
any
nutriment
to
supply
them
,
will
at
last
be
wholly
consumed
and
annihilated
;
which
must
be
attended
with
the
destruction
of
this
earth
,
and
of
all
the
planets
that
receive
their
light
from
it
.
They
are
so
perpetually
alarmed
with
the
apprehensions
of
these
,
and
the
like
impending
dangers
,
that
they
can
neither
sleep
quietly
in
their
beds
,
nor
have
any
relish
for
the
common
pleasures
and
amusements
of
life
.
When
they
meet
an
acquaintance
in
the
morning
,
the
first
question
is
about
the
sun
's
health
,
how
he
looked
at
his
setting
and
rising
,
and
what
hopes
they
have
to
avoid
the
stroke
of
the
approaching
comet
.
This
conversation
they
are
apt
to
run
into
with
the
same
temper
that
boys
discover
in
delighting
to
hear
terrible
stories
of
spirits
and
hobgoblins
,
which
they
greedily
listen
to
,
and
dare
not
go
to
bed
for
fear
.
The
women
of
the
island
have
abundance
of
vivacity
:
they
,
contemn
their
husbands
,
and
are
exceedingly
fond
of
strangers
,
whereof
there
is
always
a
considerable
number
from
the
continent
below
,
attending
at
court
,
either
upon
affairs
of
the
several
towns
and
corporations
,
or
their
own
particular
occasions
,
but
are
much
despised
,
because
they
want
the
same
endowments
.
Among
these
the
ladies
choose
their
gallants
:
but
the
vexation
is
,
that
they
act
with
too
much
ease
and
security
;
for
the
husband
is
always
so
rapt
in
speculation
,
that
the
mistress
and
lover
may
proceed
to
the
greatest
familiarities
before
his
face
,
if
he
be
but
provided
with
paper
and
implements
,
and
without
his
flapper
at
his
side
.
The
wives
and
daughters
lament
their
confinement
to
the
island
,
although
I
think
it
the
most
delicious
spot
of
ground
in
the
world
;
and
although
they
live
here
in
the
greatest
plenty
and
magnificence
,
and
are
allowed
to
do
whatever
they
please
,
they
long
to
see
the
world
,
and
take
the
diversions
of
the
metropolis
,
which
they
are
not
allowed
to
do
without
a
particular
license
from
the
king
;
and
this
is
not
easy
to
be
obtained
,
because
the
people
of
quality
have
found
,
by
frequent
experience
,
how
hard
it
is
to
persuade
their
women
to
return
from
below
.
I
was
told
that
a
great
court
lady
,
who
had
several
children
--
is
married
to
the
prime
minister
,
the
richest
subject
in
the
kingdom
,
a
very
graceful
person
,
extremely
fond
of
her
,
and
lives
in
the
finest
palace
of
the
island
--
went
down
to
Lagado
on
the
pretence
of
health
,
there
hid
herself
for
several
months
,
till
the
king
sent
a
warrant
to
search
for
her
;
and
she
was
found
in
an
obscure
eating-house
all
in
rags
,
having
pawned
her
clothes
to
maintain
an
old
deformed
footman
,
who
beat
her
every
day
,
and
in
whose
company
she
was
taken
,
much
against
her
will
.
And
although
her
husband
received
her
with
all
possible
kindness
,
and
without
the
least
reproach
,
she
soon
after
contrived
to
steal
down
again
,
with
all
her
jewels
,
to
the
same
gallant
,
and
has
not
been
heard
of
since
.
This
may
perhaps
pass
with
the
reader
rather
for
an
European
or
English
story
,
than
for
one
of
a
country
so
remote
