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.

After thirty-eight days’ journey we arrived on the opposite side to that on which we landed:  here we found some blue mould, as cheese-eaters call it, from whence spring all kinds of rich fruit; instead of breeding mites it produced peaches, nectarines, apricots, and a thousand delicious fruits which we are not acquainted with.  In these trees, which are of an amazing size, were plenty of birds’ nests; amongst others was a king-fisher’s of prodigious magnitude; it was at least twice the circumference of the dome of St. Paul’s Church in London.  Upon inspection, this nest was made of huge trees curiously joined together; there were, let me see (for I make it a rule always to speak within compass), there were upwards of five hundred eggs in the nest, and each of them was as large as four common hogsheads, or eight barrels, and we could not only see, but hear the young ones chirping within.  Having, with great fatigue, cut open one of these eggs, we let out a young one unfeathered, considerably larger than twenty full-grown vultures.  Just as we had given this youngster his liberty the old kingfisher lighted, and seizing our captain, who had been active in breaking the egg, in one of her claws, flew with him above a mile high, and then let him drop into the sea, but not till she had beaten all his teeth out of his mouth with her wings.