“chesnut” is standard for the time and is used consistently

“team boat” (referring to canals) is not an error

“lime-stone” and “sand-stone” are hyphenated at the beginning of the book but later become single words

“free-stone” or “freestone” are not frequent enough to establish a pattern

“country seat” starts out as two words, but later becomes hyphenated “country-seat”

the inconsistent spacing of “no( )where” “every( )where” and “else( )where” is unchanged

“back ground” is generally two words; “fore-ground” (with hyphen) occurs only once

Spelling (unchanged):

appointed him his aid

present as aid to the Emperor