Transcriber’s Note
This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Misspelled words were not corrected.
The page number in the caption to the illustration on the title page refers to an earlier issue.
Footnotes were numbered sequentially and moved to the end of the section in which the anchor occurs. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters, were corrected. An open quote was changed from single to double in the blockquote; unprinted commas in the lists of receipts were added for consistency.