TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE The editor and his printer made every effort to reproduce Washington's journal precisely and without any corrections, noting in the Preface "with that literal exactness as to text which can only be assured by the careful efforts of an experienced copyist and expert proof reader having access to and comparing in every possible case the copies with the originals." This etext preserves that intent, and no corrections of spelling or punctuation have been made to the journal text (Washington's words as found in the printed book). A few corrections have been made to the editor's Footnotes and to the Index; more detail of that can be found at the end of the book. Footnotes have been left in-line whenever possible, following the format of the original text. Some that were placed mid-paragraph have been moved to the end of the paragraph. Footnotes in the original text were identified by a smaller font, so to clearly identify where Footnotes begin and end in this etext, each Footnote begins with "[Footnote x:" where x is the footnote number, and ends with "]" followed by two blank lines. Representation of italic markup, of superscripts etc in this etext, is described below:-- Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Whitespace within a journal line is indicated by @@whitespace@@. Any indentation at the beginning of a text paragraph is not shown. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}. For example, M^r (Mister) or 1^{st} (first). One insertion made by the author is denoted by ^^{text inserted}. A date range displayed by one date over the other, is denoted by ~, for example 'November 3~7^{th}' indicating 3rd to the 7th. A few superscripts had a dot under the superscripted letter(s); this has been removed in the etext. One unusual symbol is denoted by ɭ (Unicode Hex026d) on page 107, in the string '6400 ɭ 400'. Author's meaning is not clear. JOURNAL OF MY Journey Over the Mountains; BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, WHILE SURVEYING FOR LORD THOMAS FAIRFAX, BARON OF CAMERON, IN THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA, BEYOND THE BLUE RIDGE, IN 1747-8. _Copied from the Original with Literal Exactness and Edited with Notes_ BY J. M. TONER, M. D. ALBANY, N. Y. JOEL MUNSELL'S SONS, PUBLISHERS 1892 TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. Mount Vernon farms, to face page iv 2. Mount Vernon hills--made as early as 1747, traced from original, to face page 9 3. Plan of Major Lawrence Washington's turnip field, traced from original, to face page 14 4. Plan of survey of land known as "Hell Hole," traced from original, to face page 24 5. Mount Vernon river front at mouth of Hunting creek, traced from original, to face page 52 6. Surveying or measuring land, a study traced from original, to face page 56