[1: The best treatment of the South Sea Bubble for students of
literature will be found in Lewis Melville, _The South Sea Bubble_,
Boston, 1923. The author has also included in his volume extracts
from dozens of satires which appeared after 1720. He does not,
however, mention _A Voyage to Cacklogallinia_.]

[2: Pages 107 ff.]

[3: The list of "bubbles" may be found in Melville, _op. cit._,
chap, iv; Cobbett, _Parliamentary History_, VII, 656 ff., Somers,
_Tracts_ [ed. 1815], XIII, 818.]

[4: Contemporary letters indicating the interest of both men and
women in speculation may be found in _Historical Manuscripts
Commission_, XLV, 200, and CXXV, 288, 294-95, 349-50.]

[5: I have discussed the relationship between aviation and the "new
astronomy" in several articles dealing with voyages to the moon.
Bibliography may be found in two of these, "A World in the Moon,"
in _Smith College Studies in Modern Languages_, Vol. XVII (No. 2,
January, 1936), and "Swift's 'Flying Island' in the 'Voyage to
Laputa,'" _Annals of Science_, II (October, 1937), 405-31.]

[6: _Mathematicall Magick; or, The Wonders That May Be Performed
by Mechanicall Geometry_, London, 1648; in _Mathematical and
Philosophical Works_, London, 1802, II, 199.]

[7: _The Discovery of a World in the Moone; or, A Discourse Tending
to Prove, That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in
That Planet_, London, 1638.]