TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

  1. Added Table of Contents.
  2. Converted all asterisk (***) ellipses to modern (...) ellipses.
  3. Added anchor for unanchored footnote [[8]] on p. [273].
  4. Continued practice of adding month and year where they occur at the top of pages from volume 1. However, the practice was discontinued after 1844.
  5. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
  6. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.