Koelbing enumerates about a hundred and thirty mistakes (see his Introduction, p.

xvii).

Of these I took twenty-one at random, and found that eight of them did not occur in the 1806 edition--in other words, the person who collated the text nearly thirty years after Scott or his hired transcriber had done it was far from infallible.

A few illustrations may be given of mistakes that occur in both the 1806 and the 1833 editions: l.

117, _send_ is given for _sent_; l.