Transcriber's Notes
1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors, and to ensure consistent spelling and punctuation in this etext; otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the original book.
2. The sidenotes used in this text were originally published as banners in the page headers, and have been moved to reference the relevant paragraph for the reader's convenience.
3. In the chart on [page 46], detailing the original Greek alphabet, the typesetter's appear to have missed the 7th letter, kappa. The correction has been made, based on the discussion in "History of the Greek Alphabet," by E. A. Sophocles, published in 1848, by George Nichols, Boston.