Book x

. Chap. 1._

FOOTNOTES:

[392-1] Facts are stubborn things.--ELLIOT: _Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35_ (1747).

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. 1723-1780.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength,--the floating bulwark of our island.

_Commentaries. Vol. i. Book i . Chap. xiii. § 418._

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

_Commentaries. Vol. i.