Transcriber's Notes
This text is a reproduction of the 1822 edition. It includes many dialect and archaic words and spellings, as well as many typographical errors which have not been changed.
Some characters were not printed clearly:
- p. 79 The letter "i" in "you would deify" was not printed and is conjectural
- p. 131 the line ending "The wines and liquor" does not meet the margin; "liquor" may be plural.
- p. 151 the line ending "of beings so blind" does not meet the margin, and may end in a comma
- p. 274 the colon in "by the Douglas:" is unclear and may be a semi-colon
- p. 307 the semi-colon in "the attempt prematurely;" is unclear and may be a comma
Chapters are inconsistently headed "CHAPTER" or "CHAP."
The text includes the following inconsistent spellings:
- Father Lawrence and father Lawrence
- galloped and gallopped
- Castle-Wearie and Castle-Weary
- Corby and Corbie
- chace and chase
The text includes many examples of inconsistent hyphenation. The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as two words:
- yester eve and yester-eve
- all four and all-four
- arch fiend and arch-fiend
- back friends and back-friends
- bowling green and bowling-green
- coulter nose and coulter-nose
- deep wooded and deep-wooded
- divining rod and divining-rod
- high born and high-born
- high spirited and high-spirited
- hoar frost and hoar-frost
- iron door and iron-door
The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as one word: