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This
lord
Munodi
was
a
person
of
the
first
rank
,
and
had
been
some
years
governor
of
Lagado
;
but
,
by
a
cabal
of
ministers
,
was
discharged
for
insufficiency
.
However
,
the
king
treated
him
with
tenderness
,
as
a
well-meaning
man
,
but
of
a
low
contemptible
understanding
.
When
I
gave
that
free
censure
of
the
country
and
its
inhabitants
,
he
made
no
further
answer
than
by
telling
me
,
"
that
I
had
not
been
long
enough
among
them
to
form
a
judgment
;
and
that
the
different
nations
of
the
world
had
different
customs
;
"
with
other
common
topics
to
the
same
purpose
.
But
,
when
we
returned
to
his
palace
,
he
asked
me
"
how
I
liked
the
building
,
what
absurdities
I
observed
,
and
what
quarrel
I
had
with
the
dress
or
looks
of
his
domestics
?
"
This
he
might
safely
do
;
because
every
thing
about
him
was
magnificent
,
regular
,
and
polite
.
I
answered
,
"
that
his
excellency
's
prudence
,
quality
,
and
fortune
,
had
exempted
him
from
those
defects
,
which
folly
and
beggary
had
produced
in
others
.
"
He
said
,
"
if
I
would
go
with
him
to
his
country-house
,
about
twenty
miles
distant
,
where
his
estate
lay
,
there
would
be
more
leisure
for
this
kind
of
conversation
.
"
I
told
his
excellency
"
that
I
was
entirely
at
his
disposal
;
"
and
accordingly
we
set
out
next
morning
.
During
our
journey
he
made
me
observe
the
several
methods
used
by
farmers
in
managing
their
lands
,
which
to
me
were
wholly
unaccountable
;
for
,
except
in
some
very
few
places
,
I
could
not
discover
one
ear
of
corn
or
blade
of
grass
.
But
,
in
three
hours
travelling
,
the
scene
was
wholly
altered
;
we
came
into
a
most
beautiful
country
;
farmers
'
houses
,
at
small
distances
,
neatly
built
;
the
fields
enclosed
,
containing
vineyards
,
corn-grounds
,
and
meadows
.
Neither
do
I
remember
to
have
seen
a
more
delightful
prospect
.
His
excellency
observed
my
countenance
to
clear
up
;
he
told
me
,
with
a
sigh
,
"
that
there
his
estate
began
,
and
would
continue
the
same
,
till
we
should
come
to
his
house
:
that
his
countrymen
ridiculed
and
despised
him
,
for
managing
his
affairs
no
better
,
and
for
setting
so
ill
an
example
to
the
kingdom
;
which
,
however
,
was
followed
by
very
few
,
such
as
were
old
,
and
wilful
,
and
weak
like
himself
.
"
We
came
at
length
to
the
house
,
which
was
indeed
a
noble
structure
,
built
according
to
the
best
rules
of
ancient
architecture
.
The
fountains
,
gardens
,
walks
,
avenues
,
and
groves
,
were
all
disposed
with
exact
judgment
and
taste
.
I
gave
due
praises
to
every
thing
I
saw
,
whereof
his
excellency
took
not
the
least
notice
till
after
supper
;
when
,
there
being
no
third
companion
,
he
told
me
with
a
very
melancholy
air
"
that
he
doubted
he
must
throw
down
his
houses
in
town
and
country
,
to
rebuild
them
after
the
present
mode
;
destroy
all
his
plantations
,
and
cast
others
into
such
a
form
as
modern
usage
required
,
and
give
the
same
directions
to
all
his
tenants
,
unless
he
would
submit
to
incur
the
censure
of
pride
,
singularity
,
affectation
,
ignorance
,
caprice
,
and
perhaps
increase
his
majesty
's
displeasure
;
that
the
admiration
I
appeared
to
be
under
would
cease
or
diminish
,
when
he
had
informed
me
of
some
particulars
which
,
probably
,
I
never
heard
of
at
court
,
the
people
there
being
too
much
taken
up
in
their
own
speculations
,
to
have
regard
to
what
passed
here
below
.
"
The
sum
of
his
discourse
was
to
this
effect
:
"
That
about
forty
years
ago
,
certain
persons
went
up
to
Laputa
,
either
upon
business
or
diversion
,
and
,
after
five
months
continuance
,
came
back
with
a
very
little
smattering
in
mathematics
,
but
full
of
volatile
spirits
acquired
in
that
airy
region
:
that
these
persons
,
upon
their
return
,
began
to
dislike
the
management
of
every
thing
below
,
and
fell
into
schemes
of
putting
all
arts
,
sciences
,
languages
,
and
mechanics
,
upon
a
new
foot
.
To
this
end
,
they
procured
a
royal
patent
for
erecting
an
academy
of
projectors
in
Lagado
;
and
the
humour
prevailed
so
strongly
among
the
people
,
that
there
is
not
a
town
of
any
consequence
in
the
kingdom
without
such
an
academy
.
In
these
colleges
the
professors
contrive
new
rules
and
methods
of
agriculture
and
building
,
and
new
instruments
,
and
tools
for
all
trades
and
manufactures
;
whereby
,
as
they
undertake
,
one
man
shall
do
the
work
of
ten
;
a
palace
may
be
built
in
a
week
,
of
materials
so
durable
as
to
last
for
ever
without
repairing
.
All
the
fruits
of
the
earth
shall
come
to
maturity
at
whatever
season
we
think
fit
to
choose
,
and
increase
a
hundred
fold
more
than
they
do
at
present
;
with
innumerable
other
happy
proposals
.
The
only
inconvenience
is
,
that
none
of
these
projects
are
yet
brought
to
perfection
;
and
in
the
mean
time
,
the
whole
country
lies
miserably
waste
,
the
houses
in
ruins
,
and
the
people
without
food
or
clothes
.
By
all
which
,
instead
of
being
discouraged
,
they
are
fifty
times
more
violently
bent
upon
prosecuting
their
schemes
,
driven
equally
on
by
hope
and
despair
:
that
as
for
himself
,
being
not
of
an
enterprising
spirit
,
he
was
content
to
go
on
in
the
old
forms
,
to
live
in
the
houses
his
ancestors
had
built
,
and
act
as
they
did
,
in
every
part
of
life
,
without
innovation
:
that
some
few
other
persons
of
quality
and
gentry
had
done
the
same
,
but
were
looked
on
with
an
eye
of
contempt
and
ill-will
,
as
enemies
to
art
,
ignorant
,
and
ill
common-wealth
's
men
,
preferring
their
own
ease
and
sloth
before
the
general
improvement
of
their
country
.
"
His
lordship
added
,
"
That
he
would
not
,
by
any
further
particulars
,
prevent
the
pleasure
I
should
certainly
take
in
viewing
the
grand
academy
,
whither
he
was
resolved
I
should
go
.
"
He
only
desired
me
to
observe
a
ruined
building
,
upon
the
side
of
a
mountain
about
three
miles
distant
,
of
which
he
gave
me
this
account
:
"
That
he
had
a
very
convenient
mill
within
half
a
mile
of
his
house
,
turned
by
a
current
from
a
large
river
,
and
sufficient
for
his
own
family
,
as
well
as
a
great
number
of
his
tenants
;
that
about
seven
years
ago
,
a
club
of
those
projectors
came
to
him
with
proposals
to
destroy
this
mill
,
and
build
another
on
the
side
of
that
mountain
,
on
the
long
ridge
whereof
a
long
canal
must
be
cut
,
for
a
repository
of
water
,
to
be
conveyed
up
by
pipes
and
engines
to
supply
the
mill
,
because
the
wind
and
air
upon
a
height
agitated
the
water
,
and
thereby
made
it
fitter
for
motion
,
and
because
the
water
,
descending
down
a
declivity
,
would
turn
the
mill
with
half
the
current
of
a
river
whose
course
is
more
upon
a
level
.
"
He
said
,
"
that
being
then
not
very
well
with
the
court
,
and
pressed
by
many
of
his
friends
,
he
complied
with
the
proposal
;
and
after
employing
a
hundred
men
for
two
years
,
the
work
miscarried
,
the
projectors
went
off
,
laying
the
blame
entirely
upon
him
,
railing
at
him
ever
since
,
and
putting
others
upon
the
same
experiment
,
with
equal
assurance
of
success
,
as
well
as
equal
disappointment
.
"
