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.