TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Changed ‘to be in somewhat’ to ‘to be somewhat’ on p. [121].
  2. Changed ‘to reared’ to ‘to be reared’ on p. [149].
  3. Renumbered ‘Chapter VIII’ on p. [184] to ‘Chapter X’. Previous chapter was IX.
  4. Changed ‘had and obtained’ to ‘had been obtained’ on p. [195].
  5. Changed ‘If any man’ to ‘4. If any man’ on p. [242].
  6. Made the correction indicated in the [ERRATUM].
  7. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  8. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.