Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-street Square and Parliament Street.

Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. Jargon and obsolete spellings have been left unchanged unless indicated below.

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which the corresponding anchor occurs. Page headers were converted to sidenotes. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings were removed. Archibald Cameron’s brother, Donald, is misidentified in the text as [Duncan].

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