Transcriber's Notes
This text is a reproduction of the 1822 edition. It includes many dialect and archaic words and spellings, as well as many typographical errors which have not been changed.
Some characters were not printed clearly:
- p. 79 The letter "i" in "you would deify" was not printed and is conjectural
- p. 131 the line ending "The wines and liquor" does not meet the margin; "liquor" may be plural.
- p. 151 the line ending "of beings so blind" does not meet the margin, and may end in a comma
- p. 274 the colon in "by the Douglas:" is unclear and may be a semi-colon
- p. 307 the semi-colon in "the attempt prematurely;" is unclear and may be a comma
Chapters are inconsistently headed "CHAPTER" or "CHAP."
The text includes the following inconsistent spellings:
- Father Lawrence and father Lawrence
- galloped and gallopped
- Castle-Wearie and Castle-Weary
- Corby and Corbie
- chace and chase
The text includes many examples of inconsistent hyphenation. The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as two words:
- yester eve and yester-eve
- all four and all-four
- arch fiend and arch-fiend
- back friends and back-friends
- bowling green and bowling-green
- coulter nose and coulter-nose
- deep wooded and deep-wooded
- divining rod and divining-rod
- high born and high-born
- high spirited and high-spirited
- hoar frost and hoar-frost
- iron door and iron-door
The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as one word:
- daylight and day-light
- Castlewearie and Castle-Wearie
- drawbridge and draw-bridge
- auldfarrant and auld-farrant
- bareheaded and bare-headed
- eyebrows and eye-brows
- outdone and out-done
- staircase and stair-case
The following are inconsistently printed as one or two words:
- fairy land and fairyland
- Gude faith and Gudefaith
- mean time and meantime
The text contains the following apparent errors:
- p. 10 missing apostrophe ("its only the devil")
- p. 17 missing quotation mark ("What do you think")
- p. 25 missing quotation mark ("is the better. The imps")
- p. 30 extra quotation mark ("behind the friar."")
- p. 46 missing quotation mark ("preserve their worshippers.")
- p. 47 missing quotation mark ("and who must yield.")
- p. 60 missing quotation mark ("all unsafe with such.")
- p. 62 question mark instead of full stop ("off thy frame?")
- p. 68 missing quotation mark ("those we love.")
- p. 79 two instances of missing quotation marks (""Stay, they cried, stay the solemnity,")
- p. 89 missing quotation mark ("your's was the best tale.")
- p. 98 mis-spelling "in the expecsation"
- p. 102 extra space in "the sweetest strain s"
- p. 112 missing quotation mark ("follow them.")
- p. 158 extra quotation mark ("ever cattle put on."")
- p. 163 mis-placed apostrophe ("that I ken o.'")
- p. 163 missing quotation mark ("and that of such momentous")
- p. 168 missing full stop ("them to think of")
- p. 183 extra quotation mark ("Scott'" said Yardbire:")
- p. 189 mis-spelling "possessession"
- p. 196 duplicate word "themsels; and and if ye hear a Laidlaw"
- p. 213 mis-spelling "disingeniousness"
- p. 205 missing quotation mark ("Strangers, I think!")
- p. 206 comma instead of full stop ("he says, We'll never make")
- p. 207 missing quotation mark ("But whoever refuses,")
- p. 222 duplicate word "the fourth was a a boy"
- p. 225 missing space "andbegan"
- p. 237 extra quotation mark (""Alas, for my beloved")
- p. 284 single instead of double quotation mark ("the like o' that?'")
- p. 299 missing quotation mark ("begging admission to your")
- p. 321 extra quotation mark (""The Queen crossed herself,")
- p. 331 extra quotation mark ("'it's 'God's will?'")
- p. 346 extra quotation mark ("new born beauties."")
- p. 349 full stop instead of comma ("from a beam's end.")
- p. 378 mis-spelling "convalesence"
- p. 379 missing quotation mark ("apply to him again.")
- p. 380 duplicate word "shew a a"
- p. 380 missing quotation mark ("Inferiority!")
- p. 382 missing full stop ("the lord Douglas—But")
- p. 389 missing quotation mark ("Oh Sir Charles!—")
- p. 391 missing quotation mark ("or an engagement say?")
- p. 393 duplicate word "to Sir Charles was was nothing"
- p. 405 duplicate word "she could not not be"
- p. 409 "They" instead of "The" ("They rest marshalling")
- p. 410 mis-spelling "Peatstackknowe"
- p. 411 missing space ("Gibbie,and")
- p. 422 missing space ("a delusion, avision")
- p. 423 comma instead of full stop ("all was darkness, There was no")
- p. 440 duplicate word "brought on by by the stroke"
- p. 447 extra quotation mark ("was killed."")