[Transcriber's Note: There are around 240 instances of vowels accented with macrons ( straight line above) mostly Ā or ā, with one instance of ē, and five instanses of ū, and one u that should be ū and isn't. The macron is indicative of a lengthened vowel Thus the a-macron (Ā or ā) is usually pronounced as a long a. Use of the macron is not consistent throughout the text...
...and the spelling of some place names is not consistent either: e.g. Toorkisth[=an]; Toorkisthan; Toorkistan.
(There are also a number of words with 'unusual' spellings.
These spellings I have corrected:
territories for territorities; retrograde for retrogade; amongst for amonst.
These 'period' spellings I have left intact:
befel, chace, surprized, loth, gallopped, gallopping, secresy, shew, shewed, shewing, preeminence, handfull, negociation, threshhold, trellice, picketted, barricadoed, compaign. I have also retained M'Naghten for the modern McNaghten.)]
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[F]rontispiece
| View of the Outer Cave of Yeermallik,
shewing the Entrance Hole to the larger Cavern Drawn by Mr Gempertz Pelham Richardson Litho |