FOOTNOTES:
[1] Psalm lxxxvii, 2.
[2] Psalm lxxxvii, 7.
[3] From the papers of Dr. Tonic, recently brought to light.
Transcriber's Notes:
Unusual spellings retained, but obvious spelling and punctuation errors were fixed.
Contraction variants retained, notably in "Jack Downing's Visit to Portland," as features of narrator dialect.
In several stories, notably "Courtship" and "Descriptions of the Divine Being," the use of quotation marks was inconsistent, and has been standardized. This required the addition of quotation marks in several places. Where the non-use of quotation marks was consistent within a story, no changes were made.
Contents: Preface is on P. iii, not "7"(original); both "M--" in Contents and "M***" on poem heading retained; "Deserted Wife" P. 272 is correct--retained original placement above "Portland as it Was" in Contents (author name starts with "S").
P. 13, "sum of $1,363,589,69,--" Number appears incomplete, but is consistent with a separate publication of this article ["A Modest Estimate of Our Own Country," in "The Americans at home; or Byeways, backwoods, and prairies, ed. by the author of 'Sam Slick'," London: Hurse and Blackett Publishers, 1854] which reads (on P. 125) "sum of 1,363,589,69 dollars,--"