Transcriber’s Note
This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Punctuation was adjusted to standard usage. Duplicate letters and words at line endings or page breaks were removed.
Footnotes [3] and [22] were missing anchors in the text. Anchors were added where they may have belonged.
The following items were changed:
- that to [than]
- Pourcignac to Pourceaugnac, [Footnote [17]
- Dairies to Diaries, [Footnote [22]
- he to [she]
- crew to [grew]
- venemous to [venomous]
- espistle to [epistle]
- Bankes to [Banks]