parallel to me as I lay. But the principal Difficulty was to raiſe and place me in this Vehicle. Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this purpoſe, and very ſlrong Cords of the bigneſs of Packthread were faſtned by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs. Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt. All this I was told, for while the whole Operation was performing, I lay in a profound ſleep, by the force of that ſoporiferous Medicine infuſed into my Liquor. Fifteen Hundred of the Emperor's largeſt Horſes, each about four Inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I ſaid, was half a Mile diſtant.
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