CHAPTER XXVIII.
_The Baron sets all the people of the empire to work to build a bridge from their country to Great Britain--His contrivance to render the arch secure--Orders an inscription to be engraved on the bridge--Returns with all his company, chariot, etc., to England--Surveys the kingdoms and nations under him from the middle of the bridge._ "And now, most noble Baron," said the illustrious Hilaro Frosticos, "now is the time to make this people proceed in any business that we find convenient.

Take them at this present ferment of the mind, let them not think, but at once set them to work." In short, the whole nation went heartily to the business, to build an edifice such as was never seen in any other country.

I took care to supply them with their favourite kava and fudge, and they worked like horses.

The tower of Babylon, which, according to Hermogastricus, was seven miles high, or the Chinese wall, was a mere trifle, in comparison to this stupendous edifice, which was completed in a very short space of time.
It was of an immense height, far beyond anything that ever had been before erected, and of such gentle ascent, that a regiment of cavalry with a train of cannon could ascend with perfect ease and facility.

It seemed like a rainbow in the heavens, the base of which appeared to rise in the centre of Africa, and the other extremity seemed to stoop into great Britain.