carried us at least forty knots an hour for six months! [we should
suppose the Baron has made a little mistake, and substituted _months_
for _days_] when we began to observe an amazing change in everything
about us: our spirits became light, our noses were regaled with the most
aromatic effluvia imaginable: the sea had also changed its complexion,
and from green became white!! Soon after these wonderful alterations
we saw land, and not at any great distance an inlet, which we sailed up
near sixty leagues, and found it wide and deep, flowing with milk of the
most delicious taste. Here we landed, and soon found it was an island
consisting of one large cheese: we discovered this by one of the company
fainting away as soon as we landed: this man always had an aversion to
cheese; when he recovered, he desired the cheese to be taken from under
his feet: upon examination we found him perfectly right, for the
whole island, as before observed, was nothing but a cheese of immense
magnitude! Upon this the inhabitants, who are amazingly numerous,
principally sustain themselves, and it grows every night in proportion
as it is consumed in the day. Here seemed to be plenty of vines, with
bunches of large grapes, which, upon being pressed, yielded nothing but
milk. We saw the inhabitants running races upon the surface of the milk:
they were upright, comely figures, nine feet high, have three legs,
and but one arm; upon the whole, their form was graceful, and when they
quarrel, they exercise a straight horn, which grows in adults from the
centre of their foreheads, with great adroitness; they did not sink at
all, but ran and walked upon the surface of the milk, as we do upon a
bowling-green.

Upon this island of cheese grows great plenty of corn, the ears of which
produce loaves of bread, ready made, of a round form like mushrooms. We
discovered, in our rambles over this cheese, seventeen other rivers of
milk, and ten of wine.