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. Obsolete words and misspellings were left unchanged; however, corrections noted in the Errata were corrected in the text.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. The “Contents of the Additions” was moved to the end of the Table of Contents and the table of Errata was moved from middle of the Table of Contents to follow it.
Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences, lists, and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words and syllables at line endings or page breaks were removed.
Other Changes:
- Commas used as a decimal point were changed to mid-dots in tables.
- Capitalized column and section headers.
- For consistency, added missing stops after item numbers in “Order of Firing” list, and added missing commas at end of each item in the list.
- Excess punctuation was removed.
Noted, but not changed:
- Inconsistent use of stop at end of alpha groups of Subscriber Names.
- Inconsistent use of stop at end of column heads in tables.
- Inconsistent use of commas and stops after figure numbers.
- Inconsistent use of stops in the illustrations after the word “Plate” and the following number.
- Inconsistent use of Roman numerals for Plate numbers in the text while the plates use Arabic numbers.
- “It’s” is sometimes used for “its.”
- Commas are occasionally used unexpectedly.