Transcriber’s Note:

Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were not changed. The caption for the illustration on [page 218] and related entry in the list of illustrations may have a typographical error of “Thomas” for “Thompson.”

Final stops and quotation marks missing at the end of sentences were added. One footnote was moved to follow the paragraph in which its related anchor occurs.

The following items were changed: