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Jonathan Swift 1726

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From: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations
Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo

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Jonathan Swift 1726

"On the 16th Day of June 1703, a Boy on the Top-mast discovered Land. On the 17th we came in full View of a great Island or Continent, (for we knew not whether) on the South-side whereof was a small Neck of Land jutting out into the sea, and a Creek too shallow to hold a Ship of above one hundred Tuns."

This is the fictional account of how Captain Lemuel Gulliver came to Brobdingnag in Jonathan Swift's classic Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (1726), better known as "Gulliver's Travels." Swift located Brobdingnag, ...

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