What do you understand by the term 'curiosities' of the island? How would you describe them after reading the chapter?

Gulliver says that he " I chiefly wanted to know to what Cause in Art or in Nature, it owed its several Motions, whereof I will now give a Philosophical Account to the Reader."

You can check out a description od the island from the text below:

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/fiction_u/swiftj_gt/gt3_ch3.html