To get over the wall we used ladders of ropes, placing a flat piece of thick board 1811ff the old mansion ... a flat of thick board on touching a spring, it would suddenly fly open 1811ff ... it would fly open so that on emergency we could traverse every apartment 1811ff so that on an emergency ... a beautiful young lady asleep in the only bed in the room 1811ff ... on the only bed in the room to dispossess the fair tenant of premises to which 1851/70 ... of the premises to which As soon as we were prepared, we returned to the mansion 1870 As soon as they were ... exhibiting the person before her in all his horrific appearances 1870 exhibited ... some of the same material being placed in its mouth 1811ff some material being placed in its mouth not having yet stripped off his ghostly habiliments 1870 not having stripped off ... which in the night appears like coals of fire 1851/70 ... looks like ... the generous midshipman, John Brown 1811ff ... Jack Brown as there were several other British prisoners in the jail 1811ff ... in jail put under the hands of a barber, cleaned, furnished with a change of clothes 1870 ... cleansed ... his ship was ordered for America 1870 ... to America went before the magistrates of the town 1870 ... the magistrate of the town planned the structure of their family edifice. [NOTE] See Barometer 109-110. 1811 [FOOTNOTE] See pages 34 and 38. 1851/70 NO FOOTNOTE This intimation according with the ardent wishes of Alonzo, the site 1851/70 This intimation accorded with the ardent wishes of Alonzo. The site Spring, with its verdured fields 1864 verdurous [this difference is on the last page: see above] commencing sprightly, but ending plaintive and melancholy 1870 ... plaintively and melancholy * * * * * * * * * Errors and Inconsistencies: _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged. Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints