Love! Oh Eternal
Creator, pity my Weakness, and since I cannot speak a Gratitude
adequate to thy Mercies, accept the Fulness of my Heart, too
redundant for Expression.

As I spoke this, in the _Cacklogallinian_ Tongue, _Volatilio_ came up to
me, and said,

"Alas! _Probusomo_, how can a finite Being return Praises adequate to
infinite Mercies! Let us return such as we are capable of; let the
Probity of our Lives speak our Gratitude; by our Charity for each
other endeavour to imitate the Divine Goodness, and speak our Love
to him, by that we shew to Mortals, the Work of his Divine Will,
however they may differ from us, and from one another, in their
Species. I am glad I am not deceived in my Opinion of you. I
believed from the Observation I made of your Life in a corrupt and
dissolute Court, that you fear'd the first Being of Beings, and for
that Reason chose you Companion of this hitherto unattempted
Journey; for I expected a Blessing would attend my Undertaking,
while such a one was embark'd with me: For to the Shame of our
Nation, we own a Deity in Words, but deny him in our Actions: We
acknowledge this Divine Being must be pure and just, and that our
Lives (as he must abominate all Impurity and Injustice) ought to be
conformable to his Attributes, wou'd we hope his Favour and
Protection, notwithstanding we act diametrically opposite, as the
most ready Method to procure our Happiness."

Finding our selves press'd by Hunger, we descended the Mountain, at the
Foot of which we found a Plantation of Olive Trees, and abundance of
Pear, standing Apricock, Nectarn, Peach, Orange, and Lemon Trees,
interspers'd. We satisfied our craving Appetites with the Fruit we
gather'd, and then getting into my _Palanquin_, _Volatilio_ leading the
Way, we went in Search of the Inhabitants. Our Flight was little better
than a Soar, that we might with more Advantage view the Country.

After a couple of Hours, he saw a House, but of so great a Height,
and so very large, I who was short-sighted in Comparison of the
_Cacklogallinians_, took it for a great Hill; I told him my Opinion, but
he assured me I was mistaken. We therefore urg'd forward, and I alighted
not far from this Palace, for I could term it no other, from the
Largeness and Beauty of its Structure. We had been discover'd, as I had
reason to believe, some Time, and a Number of People about Thirty, at
our alighting, immediately encompass