Transcriber's Notes:
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text just before the index and relabeled consecutively through the document.
Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are discussed.
Punctuation has been made consistent.
Chapters XIII and XIV have identical titles.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except as noted below.
Changes have been made as follows:
p. 20: ["profuison" changed to "profusion"] (wild profusion, is)
p. 45: ["cock-of-the rock" changed to "cock-of-the-rock"] (allied cock-of-the-rock is)