FOOTNOTES:
[119] Fearon.—Flint.
Comment by Ed. Henry Bradshaw Fearon, a London surgeon born about 1770, was sent to the United States by an association of English families to investigate suitable sites for their residence. He found little that pleased him, as appears from his account, Sketches in America (London, 1818).
[120] The process of cutting the bark round trees, to destroy their growth, is called girdling, or deadening.—Flint.