[166] "Correspondence of Thomas Gray and Mason, edited from the originals," by the Rev. John Mitford, p. 112.
[167] Dr Bowring's "Life of Jeremy Bentham," Works, vol. xi. p. 80, 81.
[168] "Bowring's Life," vol. x., Works, p. 186.
[169] By Robert Chambers, Edinburgh, 1851, 4 vols., vol. i., p. 146.
[170] The stick used for clearing away the clods from the plough.
[171] An occasional ear of corn in a thrave,—that is, twenty-four sheaves.
[172] "Worthies of England," vol. i. p. 545.
[173] "Wilson's Life," p. 28.
[174] "Memoir of Wilson," p. 27, prefixed to his poetical works. Belfast, 1844.
[175] Gentleman's Magazine, for June 1784, being the sixth number of vol. liv., pp. 412-414, "Unnoticed Properties of that little animal the Hare."