Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
Each “Figure” reference is to a portion of the Plate illustration immediately preceding the text.
The captions of all illustrations included this credit line:
Thos. Kell & Son, Lith.
which have been omitted in this eBook.
The right-side edges of several illustrations were missing or illegible.
Page [43]: Two occurrences of “sime” were changed to “semi-” to conform with the rest of the book.