On [Page 214], pack horses was spelled as two words in the clause: the pack horses and cattle, with their drivers .... No change was made despite the spelling being inconsistent in this book. See the detailed notes of Chapter 5 for more details.
Chapter 8:
On [Page 234], changed Persist to persist in The Acadians Persist in their Refusal in the topics list at the beginning of Chapter 8.
On [Page 248], block-house is hyphenated and split between two lines. There are ten other occurrences of blockhouse in the book, without the hyphen. There are two occurrences of block-house, on page 73 and page 76, with the hyphen. Majority rules:—we have transcribed the word blockhouse, without the hyphen, in the clause: there was a large blockhouse and a breastwork of timber defended by ...
On [Page 256] in [footnote 264], corrected the spelling of L'Évéque de Québec to L'Évêque de Québec. [Footnote 75] and [Footnote 106] opt for the circumflex in l'Évêque. The source for Footnote 75 is the same source as Footnote 264. The grave after v appears to be a typo. This error was also present in the 1884 version of the book.
On [Page 278] heart-sick is hyphenated and split between two lines. There are no other occurrences of the word in these two volumes. Heartsick without the hyphen may be found in Mr. Webster, but not the hyphenated word. Therefore, the hyphen was not retained in transcribing the clause: Winslow grew heartsick at the daily sight of miseries ...
Chapter 9:
On [Page 290] in [footnote 296], we have placed a period after VI in the source: Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, VI. 429. Footnote 393 and 457 refer to the same source, and both other references have a period after VI.
Chapter 10:
On [Page 326], Parkman uses a hyphen in whale-boat, which is inconsistent with his usage of the word in these two volumes. There are two other occurrences of whale-boat: 1) On Page 271, as part of a quote, and 2) On Page 323, as part of the quote. The presumption is that Parkman had no choice in the spelling of quoted text. There are twelve occurrences of whaleboat in the text without the hyphen. There was one additional case where whale-boat was hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing (see the detailed notes for Chapter 21). That word was transcribed as whaleboat. We made no change in the sentence: At the end of October, leaving seven hundred men at Oswego, Shirley returned to Albany, and narrowly escaped drowning on the way, while passing a rapid in a whale-boat, to try the fitness of that species of craft for river navigation. However, this usage is an outlier.