Excerpt from At the Forks of the Delaware, 1794-1811: Chronicles of Early Travel to Easton and Neighboring Parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Including Extracts From a Hitherto Untranslated and Unpublished Manuscript It may seem out of proportion in so brief a pam phlet to provide such full paraphernalia of preface, table of contents, foot - notes, and index. Indeed note 2 is a miniature bibliography. All this is done for the sake of consistency. Having bewailed the lack of such accessories in other pamphlets the writer dared not omit them in his own. A table of contents enables the reader at a glance to see in their proper sequence the general topics of a study. An index gives instant refer ence to names of people and places and to all lesser details. How wearily has many a research student waded through long pages of material to discover the presence or absence of something on his topic. Hours of time could have been saved if there had been an index or even a good table of contents. Similarly are the foot - notes and bibliography suited often to save the later scholar long excursions into blind alleys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.