Transcriber’s Notes:
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies.
The transcriber noted the following issues and made changes as indicated to the text to correct obvious errors:
- p. 678, “hemlet” changed to “helmet”
- p. 681, “complaceny” changed to “complacency”
- p. 744, “impenetable” changed to “impenetrable”
- p. 751, “beween” changed to “between”
- p. 756, Footnote 4, “positon” changed to “position”