Editing Brobdingnag (section)

== People, flora and fauna ==
[[File:Willmann, Colin, & Outhwaite, Gulliver with the Brobdingnag king and queen, cph.3b18902.jpg|thumb|Gulliver with the King and Queen of Brobdingnag, from a French edition of ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1850s)]]
The people of Brobdingnag are described as [[giant]]s who are as tall as 60 feet high and whose stride is ten yards.

All of the other animals and plants, and even natural features such as rivers and even [[hail]], are in proportion. The rats are the size of [[mastiff]]s, with tails "two yards long, wanting an inch", while mastiffs are "equal in bulk to four [[elephant]]s". Gulliver describes flies "as big as a [[Dunstable]] [[lark]]", and [[wasp]]s the size of [[partridge]]s, with stings "an inch and a half long, and sharp as needles". This also means that the country is far more dangerous for people of normal human size, as evidenced by Gulliver using his [[cutlass|hanger]] far more often here—namely, on attacking vermin—than in any other of the strange countries he visited, but the people are civilised. A ''splacknuck'' is an animal about {{convert|6|ft|m}} long, to which Gulliver is compared in size, although it is never explained which animal it corresponds to.

[[Fossil]] records are claimed to show that the ancestors of the Brobdingnagians were once even larger, likely as an allusion to the medieval tendency of supporting similar claims with bones that had, around Swift's time, started being identified as belonging to elephants, [[mastodon]]s and even [[whale]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Robert Plot: A brief biography of this important geologist's life and work.|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/learning/pdfs/plot.pdf|publisher=Oxford University Museum of Natural History|access-date=4 June 2013}}</ref><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=GeGZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected ]'', Jan Bondeson</ref> The King of Brobdingnag argues that the race has deteriorated.

The language of Brobdingnag is depicted as being of a character distinctively different from that of Lilliput.