TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
1. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break.
2. Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.
3. The following typographical errors have been corrected:
"Bath-on-the Hudson" corrected to "Bath-on-the-Hudson" (page 28)
"facades" corrected to "façades" (page 30)
"scarely" corrected to "scarcely" (page 168)
"Real" corrected to "Rèal" (page 236)
"Situate" corrected to "Situated" (page 248)
"condemed" corrected to "condemned" (page 261)
"transferrred" corrected to "transferred" (page 261)
"pedestrains" corrected to "pedestrians" (page 312)
"possesesion" corrected to "possession" (page 358)
"establisment" corrected to "establishment" (page 438)
"granduer" corrected to "grandeur" (page 459)
"ignominously" corrected to "ignominiously" (page 464)
"excelence" corrected to "excellence" (page 523)
4. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.