I shall be like that tree,—I shall die at the top.

Scott's Life of Swift.[294:1]

Footnotes

[289:3] As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unapproachable bogs.—Plutarch: Theseus.

[290:1]

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,

And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;

While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

De Morgan: A Budget of Paradoxes, p. 377.