Transcribers' Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page [40]: "one of the betters." was printed with that spelling.
Page [90]: "clandestine hell" was printed that way, not as "hall".
Page [216]: The hyperlinks assigned by the Transcriber to the "part" and "chapter" references on this page may be incorrect: two links were provided because there is no "part vii" in either of the two "chapter ix's".
Page [259]: "where it begins?" was printed with the question mark.
[Footnote J] (originally on page [179]) refers to a figure on page 219, and a "2" was handwritten over the "1", but the figure actually appears on page [228]. The reference has been corrected in this eBook.