FOOTNOTES:

[3] See _Guesses at Truth_. First series.

[4] _A Selection of English Synonyms_. Second Edition. Parker, London:

1852.

[5] See Whately's _Logic_, book iv., chap. 3, § 1, in which the above is

illustrated by the difference between the road from London to York and

the road from York to London.

[6] The nouns are used here instead of the verbs for convenience sake,

as they precisely correspond.

'CHAPTER ON CATS.'

In No. 419 of this Journal, an article with the above heading mentions

among the exports from New York to New Granada 100 _cats_. Wherever our

contributor may have picked up his intelligence, the original source is

the _New York Herald_; but, unluckily, a paper of a more practical

character--if we may judge from its title--_The Dry-Goods Reporter_,

gives the custom-house entry in full, in which the change of a single

vowel makes a prodigious difference. The entry is this: '100 _cots_--125

dollars--to Granada.'

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 · 第 12 / 17 题