Volume 1 — TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
Reading edition
The George Routledge & Co. (London, 1850) and White, Gallaher, and White (New York, 1827) editions were consulted for some of the changes listed below.
Archaic/obsolete spellings (survivers, visiters, suiter, restiffness, etc.) have been preserved.
Page numbers are given in {curly brackets}.
Alterations to the text:
Add ToC.
Convert footnotes to endnotes.
Originally located at the end of the second volume, the notes to this volume have been moved here and placed under NOTES.
Punctuation: fix some missing periods and commas, and quotation mark pairings/nestings.
[Title Page]
Add author’s name and move epigraph to a following page.
[Chapter III]
Change “plants that have sprung up in close neigbourhood” to neighbourhood.
“Providence having opened a wide door therefor in the generous” to therefore.
[Chapter IX]
“a deep ponited rich lace ruff embellished his neck” to deep-pointed.
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