Editorial Emendations

These notes record all emendations in the present text to the first edition of The Emigrant. Each entry contains the reading of the present text before the "]" and the reading of the first edition after the "]". Thus "73 Goliath] Goliah" indicates that in line 73 of the poem the word "Goliah" in the first edition has been corrected to "Goliath" in the present text. Throughout the present text, double quotation marks have been placed around materials by John Hart that are quoted by the narrator and the double quotation marks surrounding quotations within these materials have been reduced to singles. In one instance, line 151, double quotation marks are already in place in the first edition to mark the conclusion of material quoted by the narrator.