Apparent printer's errors have been retained, unless stated below.
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Page [21], "gray" changed to "grey" for consistency. (...rich and poor, white, black and grey,—everybody was more or less seriously affected by this curious epidemic.)
Page [60], "anexed" changed to "annexed". (In the addenda to my Report (above named) there appeared the annexed statement, by somebody:)
Page [88], "H.B.M." changed to "H.R.M." (Her Royal Majesty) for consistency. (From Hon. Col. Phipps, H.R.M. Secretary.)
Page [116], "oustrip" changed to "outstrip". (At this time there was found an ambitious individual, occasionally, who got "ahead of his time," and whose laudable efforts to outstrip his neighbors were only checked by the natural results of his own superior "progressive" notions)
Page [153], "millenium" changed to "millennium". ("Fanny" went into New York State, crowing when she left, crowing as she went, and continuing to crow until she crowed the community there clear through the next fourth o' July, out into the fabled millennium.)
Page [162], "@" changed to "or". (The prices for chickens ranged from $12 or $15 a pair, to $25 or $30, and often $40 to $50, a pair.)