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this is from Gulliver's travellers I think
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1.). Gulliver reaches Lilliput by swimming ashore after a shipwreck. After being blown off course near "Van Diemen's Land" (Tasmania, an island south of Australia) his ship hits a rock, and the small boat he and several others attempt to use to escape is swamped by waves. He seems to be the only survivor, and is left to swim, which he does until he reaches a small island. "I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide," Gulliver tells us, and he swam until the water was shallow enough to walk. After walking for nearly a mile in shallow water, he reaches a beach, where he lies down to rest in the grass. He wakes up to find himself tied to the ground by his limbs and by his hair, and he quickly discovers that the tiny Lilliputians, "not six inches high," have made him their prisoner. When he removes the ropes that secure him to the ground, they shoot him with tiny arrows.
2.). Gulliver tells the prince that he would like to "know, to what cause, in art or in nature, it owed its several motions," and the prince provides him with a tutor to help him understand how the island functions. From his tutor, he learns that the island has a "loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle," and this serves as a magnet. By this magnet, with its attractive and repulsive ends, the inhabitants navigate the floating island where the ruler wishes.
The magnet does have its limits, though. For instance, it cannot go beyond the height of four miles. The Laputian scientists explain this by saying that the "magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles." This concept, of a floating island, doesn't seem tremendously out of the ordinary to modern readers who are used to airplanes.
2.). Gulliver tells the prince that he would like to "know, to what cause, in art or in nature, it owed its several motions," and the prince provides him with a tutor to help him understand how the island functions. From his tutor, he learns that the island has a "loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle," and this serves as a magnet. By this magnet, with its attractive and repulsive ends, the inhabitants navigate the floating island where the ruler wishes.
The magnet does have its limits, though. For instance, it cannot go beyond the height of four miles. The Laputian scientists explain this by saying that the "magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles." This concept, of a floating island, doesn't seem tremendously out of the ordinary to modern readers who are used to airplanes.
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