TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- P. [1], added “PART I”.
- P. [71], changed “advantages over the second” to “advantages over the first”.
- P. [179], changed “built in 1795” to “built in 1775”.
- P. [189], changed “General Washington, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson dated September 26, 1875” to “General Washington, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson dated September 26, 1775”.
- P. [190], changed “In 1787 Fulton” to “In 1797 Fulton”.
- P. [315], changed “On the 28th of June, 1870” to “On the 28th of June, 1890”.
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
- Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers.