Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
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This book does not have clearly-defined chapters.
[Page 215]: The symbol after “liable to be turned” is a circle containing a cross. The map to which it refers contains a similar mark in the blank area in the upper-middle.