Transcriber Notes

Table of Contents added.

Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are highlighted and listed below.

The original text has also had its errata incorporated.

Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation is preserved.

Author’s punctuation style is preserved, except where noted.

Transcriber Changes

The following changes were made to the original text:

Page 17: Added missing footnote tag (Here Death has given many a horrid wound![5])

Page 20: Was ’foreget’ (There is no lethean power can teach me to forget.)

Page 30: Stanza number was ’XLIV’ (LXIV. Say, how shall he regain it, when ’twas giv’n)

Page 38: Was ’protentous’ (And no portentous, fearful meteor, there, should blaze, and blacken, and create dismay)

Page 43: Changed period to comma (When he was thirteen years old, his father removed thence to the South Yadkin, North Carolina;)

Page 43: Added beginning quote (“No historical facts are better attested, than those, to which allusion is here made.)

Page 44: Added beginning quote (“Supposing them to be artificial, we are led into a vast field of conjecture.)

Page 44: Added beginning quote (“Viewing them as artificial, nothing can be more curious;)

Page 44: Added beginning quote (“If we suppose them to be natural, which, in my opinion, is the most rational belief)

Page 45: Changed to single quotes (the long vista through which I look back to this western ‘Eden,’ presents it)

Page 46: Was ’iu’ (accompanied by his accomplished wife, an English lady, he arrived in New York in 1796 or ’97)