[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 Langden are 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.