Gulliver asked the king’s leave to see the curiosities of the island. The king graciously granted it and sent his tutor along.
What Gulliver most wanted to know was what made the island move, art or nature. He promises to give the reader a philosophical account of it.
The flying island is exactly circular. It is 7,837 yards across, about four and a half miles, and so covers ten thousand acres. It is three hundred yards thick.
