France and England in North America, Part VI : Montcalm and Wolfe

Chapter 85

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On Page 234, changed Persist to persist in The Acadians Persist in their Refusal in the topics list at the beginning of Chapter 8.

On Page 248, block-house is hyphenated and split between two lines. There are ten other occurrences of blockhouse in the book, without the hyphen. There are two occurrences of block-house, on page 73 and page 76, with the hyphen. Majority rules:--we have transcribed the word blockhouse, without the hyphen, in the clause: there was a large blockhouse and a breastwork of timber defended by ...

On Page 256 in footnote 264, corrected the spelling of L'Évéque de Québec to L'Évêque de Québec. Footnote 75 and Footnote 106 opt for the circumflex in l'Évêque. The source for Footnote 75 is the same source as Footnote 264. The grave after v appears to be a typo. This error was also present in the 1884 version of the book.

On Page 278 heart-sick is hyphenated and split between two lines. There are no other occurrences of the word in these two volumes. Heartsick without the hyphen may be found in Mr. Webster, but not the hyphenated word. Therefore, the hyphen was not retained in transcribing the clause: Winslow grew heartsick at the daily sight of miseries ...