Transcriber’s Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation, capitalization, and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
The following inconsistencies were noted and retained:
- Grous and Grouse
- John Bullow and John Bulow
- Ingalls and Ingals
- Lehman and Leehman
- lents and lints
- Magdaleine and Magdeleine Islands
- oppossum and opossum
- waggons and wagons
- Schuylkill and Schuylkil
- arcuato-declinate and arcuate-declinate
- cæca and cœca
- Macculloch and M’Culloch
The following are possible errors, but retained:
- unrol
- “at the height of fifty years or more”
- John Quincey Adams
- Daniel Boon
- “The matin calls”
- Persimons
- pork-rhind
- p. 487 of Vol. II should possibly be page 435 of that volume.
The Errata on [page 632] have been corrected in the text.
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