FOOTNOTES:
[A] By an odd coincidence, I observe that Washington made one of his first shipments of tobacco (after his marriage with Mrs. Custis) upon a vessel called "The Fair American." Did the ship possibly give a name to the novel, or the novel a name to the ship?
[B] Practical Farmer, by William Ellis. London, 1759.
[C] The eminent geologist, Robert Bakewell, who lived many years later, wrote of the "Influence of the Soil on Wool," and for that reason, perhaps, is frequently confounded by agricultural writers with the great breeder.
[D] Third volume Statistics, p. 598.
[E] Dated December, 1796. Sparks's Life and Letters, Vol. XII. p. 328.
[F] A poetess whose merits, as it seems to me, are, as yet, only half acknowledged.
[G] Sense and Sensibility.