ut, attended by a fleet of canoes with
fighting-stages and the chiefest warriors of the islands, commanded by
Omai. Thus the chariot of Queen Mab, my team of bulls and the crickets,
the ark, the Sphinx, and the balloons, with Hilaro Frosticos, Gog and
Magog, Lord Whittington, and the Lord Mayor's show, Don Quixote, &c.,
with my fleet of canoes, altogether cut a very formidable appearance on
our arrival at the Isthmus of Darien. Sensible of what general benefit
it would be to mankind, I immediately formed a plan of cutting a canal
across the isthmus from sea to sea.

For this purpose I drove my chariot with the greatest impetuosity
repeatedly from shore to shore, in the same track, tearing up the rocks
and earth thereby, and forming a tolerable bed for the water. Gog and
Magog next advanced at the head of a million of people from the realms
of North and South America, and from Europe, and with infinite labour
cleared away the earth, &c., that I had ploughed up with my chariot.
I then again drove my chariot, making the canal wider and deeper, and
ordered Gog and Magog to repeat their labour as before. The canal being
a quarter of a mile broad, and three hundred yards in depth, I thought
it sufficient, and immediately let in the waters of the sea. I did
imagine, that from the rotatory motion of the earth on its axis from
west to east the sea would be higher on the eastern than the western
coast, and that on the uniting of the two seas there would be a strong
current from the east, and it happened just as I expected. The sea came
in with tremendous magnificence, and enlarged the bounds of the canal,
so as to make a passage of some miles broad from ocean to ocean, and
make an island of South America. Several sail of trading vessels and
men-of-war sailed through this new channel to the South Seas, China,
&c., and saluted me with all their cannon as they passed.

I looked through my telescope at the moon, and perceived the
philosophers there in great commotion. They could plainly discern the
alteration on the surface of our globe, and thought themselves somehow
interested in the enterprise of their fellow-mortals in a neighbouring
planet. They seemed to think it admirable that such little beings as
we men should attempt so magnificent a performance, that would be
observable even in a separate world.

Thus having wedded the Atlantic Ocean to the South Sea, I returned to
England, and found Wauwau precisely in the very spot whe