The spelling of place names vary locally, e.g., Allegany / Allegheny.
The word “phæton” appears both with and without the æ ligature, and are retained as printed.
Hyphenation can be variable and is retained as found. Where the sole instance of a hyphenated word occurs on a line break, modern usage is followed.
For Chapters XXIX, XXXII, the chapter summary fails to consistently use the conventional ‘—’ separator between topics. These omissions have been corrected.
The following list contains typographical or spelling errors which were noted, by the original pagination: (29) excelerating, (145) sapplings, (155) ignominously, (157) wood-be robber, (166) Gautemala, (252) whatsomever, (269) germaine, (290) Abram, (297) from widow Goodings, (323) Tennesse, (327) mint julip, (328) Butting, (333), beleagured, (349) empanneled.
Punctuation and spacing errors have been corrected to follow usage elsewhere in the text.