The Author gives fome Account of himfelf and Family, his firft Inducements to travel. He is fhipwrecked, and fwims for his Life, gets fafe on fhoar in the Country of Lilliput, is made a Prifoner, and carryed up the Country.
Y Father had a small Estate
in Nottinghamshire; I was
the Third of Five Sons. He
fent me to Emanuel College
in Cambridge, at Fourteen Years old, where
I refided three Years, and applyed my self