Note 50 — Chapter VII · Comparisons with other Dialects.
Reading edition
The word is "schwœhl" in the original—probably borrowed from the local English word swale. Wuu, G. wo, where. The author was born in 1816, at Niagara, in a small colony which had emigrated from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania—his father in 1811. The colony received additions about the year 1830.