A short history of Rhode IslandGreene, George Washington
History
A short history of Rhode Island
Greene, George Washington
Rhode Island -- History
The paragraphs of the Dedication were printed in mixed case using
small capitals. In the interest of readability, this portion of the
text is simply left as mixed case.
There are several errors in the chronology given in the Analytical
table. The entry for Chapter XVII is missing the year of the death
of Governor Cranston (1727) which is mentioned on p. 141. This has
been added. The page number for the last entry for Chapter XXXIX
was printed as 228, but should have been 282. This has been corrected
as well.
Minor inconsistencies of punctuation in the Analytical Table and the
Index have been corrected silently. In the Index, the entry for
Roger Williams includes an out-of-sequence reference to p. 39, which
should have been p. 29.
Some words appear both with and without hyphens. Where the hyphen is
used at a line break, the most common usage is followed.
The word 'seized' was misprinted twice (pp. 30, 79) as 'siezed'.
It appears correctly more than a dozen times. These have been
corrected.
On p. 112, an opening quotation mark in the final paragraph is never
closed. A page later, an unbalanced closing quotation mark appears, but
it is very unlikely that they correspond, since they span multiple
topics. Both have been removed. See the entries for pp. 112-113 in the
table below.
The Author's Note, which refers to p. 196, is a clarification of remarks
on the foundation and re-naming of Brown University. The paragraph
begins with the phrase "The foundation of a university".
On the final page, the description of "NATHANAEL GREENE",
includes a misprinted reference. The original referred to:
Mr. Bancrofts "History of the United" States.
This has been corrected:
Mr. Bancroft's "History of the United States."
The following table contains other typographical issues, most likely
printer's errors, and their resolution. Idiosyncratic spellings,
where no other correct instances are to be found, are allowed to
stand. Non-standard spelling which appear in quoted material are also
given here as printed, unless an error can be confirmed by comparison
with original sources.
p. viii Mass[as]oit Added.
success[s]ful Removed.
p. xiii bes[ei/ie]ged Transposed.
p. xvii [1727] Death of Governor Cranston Added.
p. 43 Deputy-Govern[e/o]r Corrected.
p. 61 struck a familiar cord _sic._
p. 74 victors and vanquishe[r/d] were driven Corrected.
p. 81 con[s]cientious Added.
p. 95 parapheranalia _sic._
p. 102 his a[r]bitrary will Added.
p. 112 The war pressed so ["]heavily on the Removed.
p. 113 says a cotemporary letter.["] Removed.
p. 117 admiral[i]ty Removed.
p. 167 the conquest of New Eng[l]and Added.
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