1294, where it means the ring on a dog's collar through which
the leash was passed. Skeat explains _torets_ as "probably eyes in
which rings will turn round, because each eye is a little larger than
the thickness of the ring." Cf. Chaucer's _Treatise on the
Astrolabe_, Part I, sec. 2, "This ring renneth in a maner turet,"
"this ring runs in a kind of eye." But Chaucer does not refer to
harness.
21 2 MR. WATERTON TELLS ME: Charles Waterton, the naturalist, was born
in 1782 and died in 1865. His _Wanderings in South America_ was
published in 1825.
23 11 EARTH AND HER CHILDREN: This paragraph is about one fifth of the
length of the corresponding paragraph as it appeared in
_Blackwood_. For the longer version see Masson's ed., Vol. XIII, p.
289, note 2.
24 14 THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE: The present office was opened Sept. 23,
1829. St. Martin's-le-Grand is a church within the "city" of London, so
named to distinguish it from St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, which faces
what is now Trafalgar Square, and is, as the name indicates, outside
the "city." The street takes its name from the church.
28 10 BARNET is a Hertfordshire village, eleven miles north of London.
29 33 A "COURIER" EVENING PAPER, CONTAINING THE GAZETTE: A gazette was
originally one of the three official papers of the kingdom; afterwards
any official announcement, as this of a great victory.
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