A voyage to Lilliput

difpofe of them as I should think fit. I have carefully perused them three Times: The Style is very plain and fimple; and the only Fault I find is, that the Author, after the Manner of Travellers, is a little too Circumftantial. There is an Air of Truth apparent through the Whole; and indeed, the Author was fo diftinguished for his Veracity, that it became a fort of Proverb among his Neighbours at Redriff, when any one affirm'd a Thing, to fay, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had fpoke

-it.

By the Advice of feveral worthy Perfons, to whom, with the Author's Permiffion, I communicated thefe Papers, I now venture to fend them

into the World, hoping they may be at least, for fome time, a better Entertainment to our young Noblemen, than the common Scribbles of Politicks and Party.

THIS Volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to ftrike out innumerable Paffages relating to the Winds and Tides, as well as to the Variations and Bearings in the feveral Voyages; together with the minute Descriptions of the Management of the Ship in Storms, in the Style of Sailors: Likewife the Account of the Longitudes and Latitudes; wherein I have Reason to apprehend that Mr. Gulliver may be a little diffatisfied: But I was refolved to fit the Work

. as much as poffible to the general Capacity of Readers. However, if my own Ignorance in Sea-Affairs fhall have led me to commit fome Mistakes, I alone am anfwerable for them: And if any Traveller hath a Curiosity to fee the whole Work at large, as it came from the Hand of the Author, I fhall be ready to gratify him.

As for any further Particulars relating to the Author, the Reader will receive Satisfaction from the first Pages of the Book.

RICHARD SYMPSON.

INTO SEVERAL

Remote NATIONS

OF THE

WORLD.

PART I.

A VOYAGE to LILLIPUT.

LONDON: Printed in the Year MDCC XXVI.

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