Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies.

Minor punctuation and printing errors have been corrected.

The Google Print source suffers from numerous gaps in the text. A copy of the original text obtained from the library at the College of Santa Fe (New Mexico) enabled the transcriber to include all omitted pages and plates for this complete transcription.

Footnotes occurring on each page of the original text are grouped at the end of the two major sections of the transcribed text, [Part I] and [Part II].

This HTML edition contains a [new table] of plates and illustrations.

Hyphen use in directional terms is now consistent throughout the author's text. This HTML edition contains inserted notes like this for each occurrence.