IN GULLIVERS TRAVELS . DESCRIBE THE FLYING OR FLOATING ISLAND
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ISLAND OF LAPUTA
  • After Gulliver's ship was attacked by pirates, he is marooned near a desolate rocky island.
  • Fortunately he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics but unable to use these for practical ends.
  • The floating island is exactly circular. The bottom of the island is one even regular plate.
  •  He realizes that the inhabitants are a distracted people who have a very limited attention span and very narrow interests.
  •   The houses in Laputa are badly built, their clothes do not fit and they spend time listening to music. While there, he tours Laputa.
  • Gulliver's explains the movement of the Flying Island of Laputa based upon magnetic forces in Laputa and Balnibarbi, the country below.
  • The island is made to rise and fall and move from one place to another by means of a loadstone.
  • The loadstone is under the care of certain astronomers, who from time to time, give it such positions as the monarch directs.
  • The island cannot rise above the height of four miles.
  •  He also explains on how it is used by the King to tyrannize the people of Balnibarbi as the King can cut off sunshine and rain from any region or throw stones at them. 
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