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But
he
may
please
to
consider
,
that
the
caprices
of
womankind
are
not
limited
by
any
climate
or
nation
,
and
that
they
are
much
more
uniform
,
than
can
be
easily
imagined
.
In
about
a
month
's
time
,
I
had
made
a
tolerable
proficiency
in
their
language
,
and
was
able
to
answer
most
of
the
king
's
questions
,
when
I
had
the
honour
to
attend
him
.
His
majesty
discovered
not
the
least
curiosity
to
inquire
into
the
laws
,
government
,
history
,
religion
,
or
manners
of
the
countries
where
I
had
been
;
but
confined
his
questions
to
the
state
of
mathematics
,
and
received
the
account
I
gave
him
with
great
contempt
and
indifference
,
though
often
roused
by
his
flapper
on
each
side
.
I
desired
leave
of
this
prince
to
see
the
curiosities
of
the
island
,
which
he
was
graciously
pleased
to
grant
,
and
ordered
my
tutor
to
attend
me
.
I
chiefly
wanted
to
know
,
to
what
cause
,
in
art
or
in
nature
,
it
owed
its
several
motions
,
whereof
I
will
now
give
a
philosophical
account
to
the
reader
.
The
flying
or
floating
island
is
exactly
circular
,
its
diameter
7837
yards
,
or
about
four
miles
and
a
half
,
and
consequently
contains
ten
thousand
acres
.
It
is
three
hundred
yards
thick
.
The
bottom
,
or
under
surface
,
which
appears
to
those
who
view
it
below
,
is
one
even
regular
plate
of
adamant
,
shooting
up
to
the
height
of
about
two
hundred
yards
.
Above
it
lie
the
several
minerals
in
their
usual
order
,
and
over
all
is
a
coat
of
rich
mould
,
ten
or
twelve
feet
deep
.
The
declivity
of
the
upper
surface
,
from
the
circumference
to
the
centre
,
is
the
natural
cause
why
all
the
dews
and
rains
,
which
fall
upon
the
island
,
are
conveyed
in
small
rivulets
toward
the
middle
,
where
they
are
emptied
into
four
large
basins
,
each
of
about
half
a
mile
in
circuit
,
and
two
hundred
yards
distant
from
the
centre
.
From
these
basins
the
water
is
continually
exhaled
by
the
sun
in
the
daytime
,
which
effectually
prevents
their
overflowing
.
Besides
,
as
it
is
in
the
power
of
the
monarch
to
raise
the
island
above
the
region
of
clouds
and
vapours
,
he
can
prevent
the
falling
of
dews
and
rain
whenever
he
pleases
.
For
the
highest
clouds
can
not
rise
above
two
miles
,
as
naturalists
agree
,
at
least
they
were
never
known
to
do
so
in
that
country
.
At
the
centre
of
the
island
there
is
a
chasm
about
fifty
yards
in
diameter
,
whence
the
astronomers
descend
into
a
large
dome
,
which
is
therefore
called
flandona
gagnole
,
or
the
astronomer
's
cave
,
situated
at
the
depth
of
a
hundred
yards
beneath
the
upper
surface
of
the
adamant
.
In
this
cave
are
twenty
lamps
continually
burning
,
which
,
from
the
reflection
of
the
adamant
,
cast
a
strong
light
into
every
part
.
The
place
is
stored
with
great
variety
of
sextants
,
quadrants
,
telescopes
,
astrolabes
,
and
other
astronomical
instruments
.
But
the
greatest
curiosity
,
upon
which
the
fate
of
the
island
depends
,
is
a
loadstone
of
a
prodigious
size
,
in
shape
resembling
a
weaver
's
shuttle
.
It
is
in
length
six
yards
,
and
in
the
thickest
part
at
least
three
yards
over
.
This
magnet
is
sustained
by
a
very
strong
axle
of
adamant
passing
through
its
middle
,
upon
which
it
plays
,
and
is
poised
so
exactly
that
the
weakest
hand
can
turn
it
.
It
is
hooped
round
with
a
hollow
cylinder
of
adamant
,
four
feet
yards
in
diameter
,
placed
horizontally
,
and
supported
by
eight
adamantine
feet
,
each
six
yards
high
.
In
the
middle
of
the
concave
side
,
there
is
a
groove
twelve
inches
deep
,
in
which
the
extremities
of
the
axle
are
lodged
,
and
turned
round
as
there
is
occasion
.
The
stone
can
not
be
removed
from
its
place
by
any
force
,
because
the
hoop
and
its
feet
are
one
continued
piece
with
that
body
of
adamant
which
constitutes
the
bottom
of
the
island
.
By
means
of
this
loadstone
,
the
island
is
made
to
rise
and
fall
,
and
move
from
one
place
to
another
.
For
,
with
respect
to
that
part
of
the
earth
over
which
the
monarch
presides
,
the
stone
is
endued
at
one
of
its
sides
with
an
attractive
power
,
and
at
the
other
with
a
repulsive
.
Upon
placing
the
magnet
erect
,
with
its
attracting
end
towards
the
earth
,
the
island
descends
;
but
when
the
repelling
extremity
points
downwards
,
the
island
mounts
directly
upwards
.
When
the
position
of
the
stone
is
oblique
,
the
motion
of
the
island
is
so
too
:
for
in
this
magnet
,
the
forces
always
act
in
lines
parallel
to
its
direction
.
By
this
oblique
motion
,
the
island
is
conveyed
to
different
parts
of
the
monarch
's
dominions
.
To
explain
the
manner
of
its
progress
,
let
A
B
represent
a
line
drawn
across
the
dominions
of
Balnibarbi
,
let
the
line
c
d
represent
the
loadstone
,
of
which
let
d
be
the
repelling
end
,
and
c
the
attracting
end
,
the
island
being
over
C
:
let
the
stone
be
placed
in
position
c
d
,
with
its
repelling
end
downwards
;
then
the
island
will
be
driven
upwards
obliquely
towards
D
.
When
it
is
arrived
at
D
,
let
the
stone
be
turned
upon
its
axle
,
till
its
attracting
end
points
towards
E
,
and
then
the
island
will
be
carried
obliquely
towards
E
;
where
,
if
the
stone
be
again
turned
upon
its
axle
till
it
stands
in
the
position
E
F
,
with
its
repelling
point
downwards
,
the
island
will
rise
obliquely
towards
F
,
where
,
by
directing
the
attracting
end
towards
G
,
the
island
may
be
carried
to
G
,
and
from
G
to
H
,
by
turning
the
stone
,
so
as
to
make
its
repelling
extremity
to
point
directly
downward
.
And
thus
,
by
changing
the
situation
of
the
stone
,
as
often
as
there
is
occasion
,
the
island
is
made
to
rise
and
fall
by
turns
in
an
oblique
direction
,
and
by
those
alternate
risings
and
fallings
(
(
the
obliquity
being
not
considerable
)
)
is
conveyed
from
one
part
of
the
dominions
to
the
other
.
