Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

Long ‘s’ (ſ) were converted to ‘s’. Footnotes moved to the end of each book. There are two anchors to footnote [122] in André Michaux’s Travels.

Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. In the second book, manuscript page numbers are displayed within brackets, e.g. {36}.

Words may have inconsistant spelling, diacriticals and hyphenation in the text. These were left unchanged, as were obsolete and alternative spellings. Except as noted below, misspelled words were not corrected.

The following were changed:

answer to answers

wool to wood

prevous to previous

Fr. André Michaux