[301] A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a half.
[330] An act of parliament has been since passed by which some breaches of trust have been made capital.
[454a] Britannia.—Sir W. Scott.
[454b] London.—Sir W. Scott.
[455] 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.
[514] This paragraph is not in the original editions.
[546] 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.
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