Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed at the end of the main text, just before the Index.
Odd-page running headings appear here as Sidenotes, usually placed near relevant text. Some of the sidenotes refer to text in footnotes, and the footnotes in this eBook are at the end of the main text, not on their original pages.
The index was not systematically checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
The index often shortened page numbers in a sequence, e.g., “144, 51, 52”. In this ebook, those page numbers have been expanded to their full size, e.g., “144, 151, 152”. However, it is possible that some were missed.
[Page 8]: “éploye” was printed that way, without an acute accent on the final “e”.
[Page 68]: “Duc D’Elchingen” was printed as “Due D’Elchingen”; changed here.