35: added 's' to 'landing' (...steamers make their various
landings.)
Page 43: removed extraneous closing quote.
Page 46: added comma after 'erection' (..., now in process of
erection, ...)
Page 55: added 's' to 'make' (forgetting even, as Bryant did, that a
vertical line from the top of the cliff on account of the crumbling
debris of ages make(s) it impossible for even the strongest arm to
hurl a stone from the summit to the margin of the river).
Page 59: missing closing quote, and possibly also missing text in
paragraph?
(one narrator says: "remarkable disappearances ...)
Page 76: changed 'materal' to 'material'.
Page 80: changed 'Revoluton'to 'Revolution'.
Page 94: added missing comma after 'library': "The Library, founded
in 1812, has about 50,000 volumes."
Page 95: changed 'Seige' to 'Siege'"... Siege Battery on the slope...."
Page 96: changed 'pictureque' to 'picturesque'.
Page 107: changed (Major Tench) 'Tighlman' to 'Tilghman'.
Page 107: added opening quote ..."the proclamation of Congress and
the farewell orders of Washington were read, and the last word
of command given."
Page 108/9: changed 'proclams' to 'proclaims'.
Page 110: changed: 'The Marquis De Chastelleaux' to 'The Marquis De
Chastellux' (ref.: google)
Page 113: changed: 'The Marquis De Chastelleux' to 'The Marquis De
Chastellux'
Page 125: added 's' to 'thousand' (thousands of young men)
Page 129: (While sunset gilds) 'theee', to 'thee',
Page 139: changed 'openng' to 'opening'.
Page 145: changed 'Sofly' to 'Softly'.
Page 153: changed 'communicaton' to 'communication'.
Page 153: added closing quote (in about 32 hours.")
Page 155: changed 'wth' to 'with'
Page 173: changed 'thousand' to 'thousands' (...thousands of
laboring men... )
Page 205: added 's' to 'brick' (thousands of bricks)
Page 212: added " to para beginning ("Viewed from the railroad ...)
Page 212: added 's' to 'thousand' (Thousands of travellers ...)
Also added: Periods and commas, various (in the poetry footnotes). The
text appears worn; there is space for a period (and a couple of letters
are missing), so I am assuming that the missing punctuation may have
been rubbed off the page.
I have also encountered a number of instances throughout the book where
the author quoted from an external source and omitted either the opening
or closing
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