TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
The editor and his printer made every effort to reproduceWashington's journal precisely and without any corrections, notingin the Preface "with that literal exactness as to text which canonly be assured by the careful efforts of an experienced copyistand expert proof reader having access to and comparing in everypossible case the copies with the originals."
This etext preserves that intent, and no corrections of spelling orpunctuation have been made to the journal text (Washington's wordsas found in the printed book). A few corrections have been made tothe editor's Footnotes and to the Index; more detail of that can befound at the end of the book.
Footnotes have been left in-line whenever possible, following theformat of the original text. Some that were placed mid-paragraphhave been moved to the end of the paragraph.
One unusual symbol is denoted by ɭ (Unicode Hex026d) on page 107,in the string '6400 ɭ 400'. Author's meaning is not clear.
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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
| 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 |
| 7. Lost river, traced from the original, to face page | 73 |
| 8. Plat of Francis Jett's land, traced from the original, to face page | 76 |
| 9. Plat of Elizabeth Washington's land, traced from the original, to face page | 76 | ...