Parnell's argument in _The English Historical Review_, vi:97.) It has been attributed to Defoe, and Col.

Parnell attributes it to Swift, but the question of its authorship is still unsolved.

The book was first published in 1728, but Scott used the edition of 1743, which he was so inaccurate as to take for the original edition; and as at that date Defoe had long been dead and Swift had lost his mind, the possibility of attributing it to either of them naturally would not occur to him.

Scott wrote scarcely any notes, but his short introduction contains some interesting general reflections which are quoted by Lockhart.
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