69 ([return])
[ See Mr. M'Culloch's Statistical Account of the British Empire, Part III. chap. i. sec. 6.]
70 ([return])
[ King and Davenant as before The Duke of Newcastle on Horsemanship; Gentleman's Recreation, 1686. The "dappled Flanders mares" were marks of greatness in the time of Pope, and even later. The vulgar proverb, that the grey mare is the better horse, originated, I suspect, in the preference generally given to the grey mares of Flanders over the finest coach horses of England.]
71 ([return])
[ See a curious note by Tonkin, in Lord De Dunstanville's edition of Carew's Survey of Cornwall.]
72 ([return])
[ Borlase's Natural History of Cornwall, 1758. The quantity of copper now produced, I have taken from parliamentary returns. Davenant, in 1700, estimated the annual produce of all the mines of England at between seven and eight hundred thousand pounds]
73 ([return])
[ Philosophical Transactions, No. 53. Nov. 1669, No. 66. Dec. 1670, No. 103. May 1674, No 156. Feb. 1683-4]