Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
The [Frontispiece] is in its original position. The other illustrations have been moved to immediately follow their descriptive notes.
In the [List of Illustrations], the page numbers 22-24 were unreadable and the page numbers 25-27 were printed incorrectly as 28-29. Transcriber has corrected both of these errors. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references lead to the corresponding illustrations; the visible numbers are just ranges.
Inconsistent punctuation in the captions of illustrations has been retained.
The [index] near the beginning of the book was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
The caption “[ST. WOLFRAM—ABBESVILLE]” was spelled as “ST. WOLPAM-ABBESVILLE” in the original book, and has been changed here to be consistent with the spelling of that name in the rest of the book.