Endnotes

^1. A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a half.

^2. An act of parliament has been since passed by which some breaches of trust have been made capital.

^3. Britannia.--Sir W. Scott.

^4. London.--Sir W. Scott.

^5. This is the revised text adopted by Dr. Hawksworth (1766). The above paragraph in the original editions (1726) takes another form, commencing:- ”I told him that should I happen to live in a kingdom where lots were in vogue,“ &c. The names Tribnia and Langdon an not mentioned, and the ”close stool" and its signification do not occur.

^6. This paragraph is not in the original editions.

^7. The original editions and Hawksworth's have Rotherhith here, though earlier in the work, Redriff is said to have been Gulliver's home in England.