Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 5 Ifell into a high-road. For (0 I took it to be, though it fervcd to the inhabitants only as a foot path through a field of barley. Here I walked on for fome time, but could fee little on either fide, it being now near harvefl, and the corn riling at leali forty feet, I was an hour walking to the: end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at ltaft one hundred and twenty feet high. And the trees fo lofty, that [could make no computation of their altitude. There was a l'tile to pal's from this field into the next. It had four fieps, and a fione to crofs over when you came to the uppermoft. It was impofiible for me to climb this fiile, becaufe every liep was fix feet high, and the upper {lone above twenty. I was endeavouring to find fome gap in the hedge, when I difc0vered one of the inhabi tents in the next field adqancing towards the (tile. 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.