Transcriber's Note
- The position of some illustrations has been changed to facilitate reading flow.
- The frontispiece featuring a picture of Elizabeth Whitney Williams (noted in the table of illustrations at the beginning of the text) is missing from the original scanned book.
- In general, geographical references, spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization have been retained as in the original publication.
- Minor typographical errors—usually periods, commas and hyphens—have been corrected without note.
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This edition of "A Child of the Sea" is being printed under the auspices of the Beaver Island Historical Society, to give our friends some of the history and legend of the Island. The story begins in the early 1800's, discussing particularly the occupancy by the Mormons, over a century ago, and continuing through the resettlement of the Island by the Irish, whose descendants still live there.