Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Johnathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 9 of 24: Arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A. M. With Notes, Historical and Critical His Majesty sent for Three great Scholars who were then in their weekly waiting (according to the custom in that countrey). These Gentlemen, after they had a while examined my Shape with much nicety, were of different Opinions concerning me. They all agreed, that I could not be produced according to the regular laws of Nature, because I was not framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by Swiftness, or climbing of Trees, or digging Holes in the Earth. They observed by my Teeth, which they viewed with great Exactness, that I was a carnivorous Animal; yet most Quadrupeds being an Overmatch for me, and Field Mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon Snails and other Insects, which they offered by many learned arguments to evince that I could not possibly do One of these Virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an Embry, or abortive Birth. But this Opinion was rejected by the other Two, who observed my limbs to be perfect and finished, and that I had lived several years, as it was manifested from my Beard, the Stumps whereof they plainly discovered through a magnifying-glass. They would not allow me to be a Dwarf, because my Littleness was beyond all Degrees of comparison for, the Queen's favourite Dwarf, the smallest ever known in that kingdom, was near Thirty foot high. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.