TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Ellipses match the original.
Page vi is blank in the original.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original.
The following corrections have been make to the text:
Page ix: Description of the Harem.[original has a comma]
Page ix: THE ENDOWMENT.[original has a comma]
Page 5: Here new difficulties arose.[period missing in original]
Page 12: following boundaries, to wit:"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 20: Brochus and Zerubbabel Snow, Associate Justices;[semi-colon missing in original]