Repeated sidenotes of this form: "Chap. [number]" were eliminated. The other sidenotes are relocated to the beginning of the associated paragraph. This sometimes results in several sidenotes appearing together at the head of a paragraph.
The List of Maps and Plates was reformatted slightly to eliminate the original ditto marks ahead of each page number. Ditto marks have also been removed elsewhere, as they do not generally work well in ebooks. Large curley brackets, "{" or "}", meant to indicate combination or grouping of information on two or more lines, have mostly been eliminated from this ebook. Such information has been recast appropriately to retain the original meaning.
TRANSLITERATION-CHARACTERS RETAINED: The characters Thorn and thorn, ("Þ"=U+00DE, "þ"=U+00FE), are retained. (The symbol "U+00DE", for example, denotes the Unicode character with hexadecimal reference number 00DE.) Also, the characters Eth and eth, ("Ð"=U+00D0, "ð"=U+00F0). The letter "đ", (U+0111) is an abbreviation for "pence", used only twice, in a Latin section.
The abbreviation "
" (U+A765), meaning þæt, and the Tironian sign "
" (U+204A), abbreviation for et/and/ond, are retained. However, these two characters are not supported by many common fonts; so images have been substituted for the Unicode characters. A symbol that looks like three dots in an equilateral triangle "
" has been retained. This also is not available as a Unicode character, so an image has been substituted. Text containing these three characters will not be text-searchable in a browser.