volume viii of our series, note 6.--ED.

[167] Durham boats were heavy freight craft built along the lines of an Indian canoe. Their designer (about 1750) was Robert Durham, manager and engineer of the Durham furnace, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The ordinary Durham boat was sixty feet long, eight feet wide, and two feet deep. When laden with fifteen tons, it drew twenty inches of water.--ED.

[168] Flint seems here to have obtained his facts from a typical guide-book. Fort William Henry, the scene of the massacre, stood at the head of Lake George; Montcalm captured it in 1757, and spread terror to Albany, and even as far as New York. Many of the prisoners of war were massacred by Indians, over whom the French claimed to have had little or no control.--ED.

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Transcriber’s note

Numbers in braces (i.e., {27}) are page references to the original manuscripts.

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Spelling of names, hyphenation, and italicized titles and dates have been standardized.

Spelling has been retained as originally published except for the spelling of names mentioned above and the corrections below.

Page 13: “alterations and addiions” “alterations and additions” Page 23: “Billious and Intermitting” “Bilious and Intermittent” Page 27: “is much to he regretted” “is much to be regretted” Page 65: “those fo carrying goods” “those for carrying goods” Page 106: “The Pittsburg navigator” “the Pittsburg navigator” Page 310: “inclosed by worm fences” “inclosed by worn fences” Page 332: “The assembly is elècted” “The assembly is elected”

Footnote Corrections:

Footnote 124: Footnote number was missing in original. Footnote 125: Footnote number corrected from 25 to 125.