Editing Brobdingnag (section)

==Scale==
[[File:Szene aus Gulliver's Reisen - Gulliver in Brobdingnag.jpg|thumb|''Gulliver in Brobdingnag'', by [[Richard Redgrave]], [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]]]
Gulliver states that a nine-year-old girl named [[Glumdalclitch]], who teaches him the language, stands "not above 40 feet tall, being small for her age". In at least two cases, he states explicitly that a Brobdingnagian's eyes are "above sixty feet" from the ground, giving a ratio of at least eleven to one. He also states that he would "appear as inconsiderable to this nation as a [[Lilliput and Blefuscu|Lilliputian]] would be among us", indicating the same twelve to one ratio given for Lilliput was intended. This is further reinforced by hailstone being almost 1,800 times as heavy as in Europe (with 1/12 ratio, it should be 1,728). The queen's [[court dwarf]], the shortest native on record, is not quite thirty feet tall, which, on a 1/12 scale, would make him equivalent to a person a bit below thirty inches, the height of the Chinese dwarf [[He Pingping]]. Gulliver also describes visiting the chief temple in Lorbrulgrud, whose tower was the highest in the kingdom, but reports he "came back disappointed, for the height is not above three thousand foot", which "allowing for the difference in size between those people and us in Europe" is "not equal in proportion to [[Salisbury Cathedral|Salisbury steeple]]". Outside world whales are stated to be of a size that one man can barely carry, and are eaten by common folk if they find a beached specimen.