Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Each page in the chapters of the original book contained one of the illustrations shown above these notes.

Page 42: "Thoughfare Gap" should be "Thoroughfare Gap".

Page 46: "Court Marshal" was printed that way.

Page 57: "as they shown through the groves" was printed that way.

Page 58: "in front of its back" probably should be "it".

Page 93: "John Biglow" may be a misprint for "John Bigelow".