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  NOTES ON TALE V.

  [Footnote 1: _There really was such a person._.]

  [Footnote 2: _The gentleman who discovered Otaheite, in company with Dr.Solander._]

  [Footnote 3: _Lady Ailesbury's._]

  [Footnote 4: _At Park-place there is such a passage cut through achalk-hill: when dogs are in the middle, the light from the mouth makestheir eyes appear in the manner here described._]

  [Footnote 5: _Copeland, the gardiner, a very grave person._]

  [Footnote 6: _Consequently they seem to have been larger._]

  [Footnote 7: _The rustic bridge at Park-place was built by generalConway, to carry the road from Henley, and to leave the communicationfree between his grounds on each side of the road. Vide last page of4th. vol. of Anecdotes of Painting._]

  [Footnote 8: _The old woman who kept the cottage built by general Conwayto command a glorious prospect. Ford-house is a farm house at thetermination of the grounds._]

  [Footnote 9: _A fictitious tomb in a beautiful spot by the river, builtfor a point of view: it has a small pyramid on it._]