Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Arithmetic and date-sequence errors have not been corrected.
Page [22]: The second illustration (“1547”) may be part of the illustration just above it.
Page [93]: “as the rious” was printed that way; may be a typgraphical error for “as the various”.
Page [152]: “Dr. Thomas Stewart Trail” may be a misspelling of “Traill”.
Page [221]: “looked up his pistols” may be a misprint for “locked”.