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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.
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MR. 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.
