rew the
horses in also. It was suggested that the driver was thrown in with it
and that the cart fell upon him, by reason his whip was seen to be in
the pit among the bodies; but that, I suppose, could not be certain.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 107: From "The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe."]

[Footnote 108: From "The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe."]

[Footnote 109: From the "History of the Great Plague in London." The
year of the plague was 1665.]

JONATHAN SWIFT

Born in 1667, died in 1745; educated at Trinity College,
Dublin; became secretary to Sir William Temple in 1688; held
small livings in Ireland in 1700 and other years; lived
mostly in London from 1701 to 1710, when he abandoned the
Whigs and became a Tory; appointed by Queen Anne dean of St.
Patrick's, Dublin, in 1713; intimate with Bolingbroke,
Addison, Steele and Pope; published "Gulliver's Travels" in
1726; his mind clouded in later years, and in 1741 he was
put under restraint.

I

ON PRETENSE IN PHILOSOPHERS[110]

I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to
the academy. Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I
believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.

The first man I saw was of a meager aspect, with sooty hands and face,
his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His
clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the same color. He had been eight
years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which
were to be put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm
the air in raw inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight
years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens
with sunshine at a reasonable rate; but he complained that his stock
was low, and entreated me to give him something as an encouragement
to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for
cucumbers. I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me
with money on purpose, because he knew their practise of begging from
all who go to see them.

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder, who likewise
shewed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of
fire, which he intended to publish.

There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method
for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downwards
to t