8. Healey reports that "in such issues as I have been able to find of the _Scots Postman, or the New Edinburgh Gazette_, there is no mention of the _Scots Atalantis_" (_Letters_, p. 306, n. 1). The title of this work and of Defoe's _Atalantis Major_ are derived from Mrs. Manley's _New Atalantis or Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality of both Sexes from the New Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean_ (1709). The OED records that the word _atalantis_ enjoyed a brief currency in the eighteenth century with the meaning, "a secret or scandalous history." 9. _Letters_, p. 307. 10. John Robert Moore, _A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe_ (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), p. 82. 11. Page 12, line 5: _do_ is omitted before _this_; page 16, line 24: _an_ for _on_; page 17, line 6: _Grandfathers_ for _Grandfather's_; page 19, the catch-word, _the_ for _this_; page 20, line 5: _run_ for _ran_; page 22, line 22: _of_ for _off_; page 28, the catch-word, _they_ for _the_; page 36, the catch-word, _Cha-_ for _Courage_; page 37, the catch-word, _Lansd_ for _Lands_. In addition, there are several places where the printer uses eighteenth-century variant spellings such as _ballances_ (pp. 5, 8), _mannaged_ (p. 2), _quallifie_ (p. 8), _Soveraign_ (p. 41) and _steddy_ (p. 15). Eighteenth-century orthographic practice would have permitted such spellings. The word _entitled_, however, appears on page five as both _entituled_ and _intituled_. 12. None of the various copies I have examined contains typographical differences--even in the case of the typographical errors. 13. On page 38, line 25, the word _Big_ is used where _Large_ would have been the English usage; on page 42, line 3, the word _Bann'd_ is used for _Swore_ and defined in the text as an "Atalantic word"; on page 43, line 4, the word _evite_ is used instead of _avoid_. 14. William Lee, _Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings_ (London: Hotten, 1869), I, 177; Paul Dottin, _Daniel Defoe_, trans. Louise Ragan (New York, Macaulay, 1929), p. 155; John Robert Moore, _Daniel Defoe, Citizen of the Modern World_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 191; and Moore, _A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe_(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962), p. 82. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE _Atalantis Major_ is reproduced from a copy of the first edition (1711) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Shelf Mark: *PR/3404/A851). A typical type-page (p. 4) measures 158 x 82 mm. Atalantis Major. Printed in _Olreeky_, the Chief City of the North Part of _Atalantis Major_. _Anno Mundi_ 1711. Atalantis Major.