[12b] What are in Ireland called moats, are, in England, called Danish mounds, or barrows.
[12c] Near Kells, in Ireland, there is a round tower, which was in imminent danger of being pulled down by an old woman’s rooting at its foundation, in hopes of finding treasure.
[77] This is a true anecdote.
[139] Salt, the cant name given by the Eton lads to the money collected at Montem.
[151] Young noblemen at Oxford wear yellow tufts at the tops of their caps. Hence their flatterers are said to be dead-shots at yellow-hammers.
[155] From beginning to end.
[167] This is the name of a country dance.
[181] It is necessary to observe that this experiment has never been actually tried upon raspberry-plants.
[194] Vide “Priestley’s History of Vision,” chapter on coloured shadows.
[222] Lobe.