TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

The title page is used as a cover.

Chapter numbering continues from the previous volume.

Page numbers are given in {curly} brackets. Endnote markers are given in [square] brackets in the plain text version.

Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. anthill/ant-hill, conjurer/conjuror, drinking-cup/drinking cup, etc.) have been preserved.

Alterations to the text:

Convert footnotes to endnotes. Relabel note markers: append the original note number to the page number.

Create errata page and copy corrigenda from volume III. Apply errata.

Add endnotes, press notices, and errata entries to TOC.

[Chapter VIII]

Change “interpretation of none of these presents any diffculty” to difficulty.

[Chapter XII]

“and whereever a society has passed beyond the nomadic stage” to wherever.

[Chapter XIV]

(entered his sept, and is truly his wife.” Among the) delete quotation mark.

[Endnotes]

A few trivial punctuation and italics corrections.

([p. 290], note 2) “the Welsh custom depends on he statement of a” to the.

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