Transcriber’s Notes:
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text and relabeled consecutively through the document.
Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.
Punctuation has been made consistent.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Captions were added to illustrations for text in the illustration as follows:
[p. 95]: THE OLIVE BRANCH
[p. 109]: SEAL
[p. 110]: SEAL
[p. 111]: SEAL
[p. 256]: LORD DUNMORE’S CAMPAIGN.
The following changes were made:
[p. 40]: ” inserted (had existed.” Without)
[p. 47]: Scoth changed to Scotch (sable Scotch Collie)
[p. 219]: Lo changed to Love (nature. Love had)
[p. 333]: deciminated changed to disseminated (and disseminated by)
