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,” etc. The names Tribnia and Langdon
are 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. ↩︎
