r Thomas Brown, the philosopher.
[D] A phrase signifying that a smuggling vessel had delivered her
cargo.
Transcriber's note:
Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.
The following printers errors were addressed.
Page 13 'new' to 'knew'
(He scarce knew what he did)
Page 13 'is' to 'his'
(took her hand in his)
Page 16 'fund' to 'found'
(who found him owre heavy for them)
Page 20 'mannner' to 'manner'
(and the manner in which)
Page 21 'certainly' to certainty'
(a liking for the certainty of the science)
Page 21 ''ve' to 'ye'
(the rest of ye wad hae been selling)
Page 24 'duplicate 'as' removed.
(people as ye could, meet)
Page 38 'uparalleled' to 'unparalleled'
(condescension and unparalleled favour)
Page 120 'indentity' to 'identity'
(evidence of his identity)
Page 125 'secresy' to 'secrecy'
(this mysterious secrecy and suspicion)
Page 129 'father' to 'faither'
(to the comforts o' a faither)
Changed to maintain consistency of dialect.
Page 151 'bridemaid' to 'bridesmaid'
(her bridesmaid was beside her)
Page 152 'succeded' to 'succeeded'
(I succeeded at last)
Page 171 'she' to She'
(She also allowed him)
Page 177 'pike' to 'pick'
(to pick your banes ahint)
Page 210 'thse' to 'these'
(While these important events)
Page 217 'Frith' to 'Firth'
(the Firth of Forth to the Tyne)
Page 218 'secresy' to 'secrecy'
(there was the secrecy of midnight)
Page 257 'though' to 'thought'
(when I thought I heard)
Page 266 'uncomonly' to 'uncommonly'
(we were uncommonly favoured)
Page 280 'of' to 'off'
(and taken off the island)
Page 282 'buisness' to 'business'
(and business went on)
Page 282 'Lindisferne' to 'Lindisfarne'
(was seen bearing round Lindisfarne)
visiter/visiters
These words are spelt thus throughout the book with
the exception of two places which have been standardised with the
above.
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