Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels.
The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at
six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of
acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or
vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then
you drive six hundred or more of them into the field,
where, in a few days, they will root up the whole
ground in search of their food, and make it fit for
sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it
is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and
trouble very great, and they had little or no
crop. However it is not doubted, that this invention
may be capable of great improvement.
Which excerpt from the passage is the best example
of understatement?
in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance
and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates,
chestnuts
then you drive six hundred or more of them into the
field, where, in a few days, they will root up the
whole ground
they found the charge and trouble very great, and
they had little or no crop
O it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable
of great improvement