[117] See page 89 of vol. vi. of present edition. [T.  S.]

[118] 1:  Faulkner’s edition adds here:  “it being a matter wholly out of my trade.” [T.  S.]

[119] See “A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures,” p. 19. [T.  S.]

[120] See Swift’s letter to Archbishop King on the weavers, p. 137. [T.  S.]

[121] Edward Waters. [T.  S.]

[122] See note prefixed to pamphlet on p. 15. [T.  S.]

[123] See notes on pp. 6, 7, 8 and 73 of vol. vi. of present edition. [T.  S.]

[124] See Appendix V. in vol. vi. of present edition. [T.  S.]

[125] See page 81. [T.  S.]

[126] Nathaniel Mist was the publisher of the “Weekly Journal,” for which Defoe wrote many important papers.  The greater part of his career as a printer was spent in trials and imprisonments for the “libels” which appeared in his journal.  This was largely due to the fact that his weekly newspaper became the recognized organ of Jacobites and “High-fliers.”  From 1716 to 1728 he was a pretty busy man with the government, and finally was compelled to go to France to escape from prosecution.  In France he joined Wharton, but his “Journal” still continued to be issued until September 21st of the year 1728, which was the date of the last issue.  On the 28th of the same month, however, appeared its continuation under the title, “Fog’s Weekly Journal,” and this was carried on by Mist’s friends.  Mist died in 1737. [T.  S.]

[127] See notes on pp. 158-159. [T.  S.]

[128] “Observations on the Precedent List:  Together with a View of the Trade of Ireland, and the Great Benefits which accrue to England thereby; with some hints for the further improvement of the same.”  Dublin, second edition, 1729.  Reprinted in Thom’s “Tracts and Treatises of Ireland,” 1861, vol. ii. [T.  S]

[129] A reference to Alberoni’s expedition in aid of the Jacobites made several years before Swift wrote. [T.  S.]

[130] Sir W. Petty gives the population of Ireland as about one million, two hundred thousand ("Pol.  Arithmetic,” 1699). [T.  S.]

[131] This is probably a Swiftian plausibility to give an air of truth to his remarks.  Certain parts of America were at that time reputed to be inhabited by cannibals. [T.  S.]

[132] This anecdote is taken from the Description of the Island of Formosa by that very extraordinary impostor George Psalmanazar, who for some time passed himself for a native of that distant country.  He afterwards published a retractation of his figments, with many expressions of contrition, but containing certain very natural indications of dislike to those who had detected him.  The passage referred to in the text is as follows:  “We also eat human flesh, which I am now convinced is a very barbarous custom, though we feed only upon our open enemies, slain or made captive in the field, or else upon malefactors legally executed; the flesh of the latter is our greatest