Transcriber’s Notes (continued)
The original text contains errors and many inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation and capitalisation. The author acknowledges this in a light-hearted nota bene to the Preface, adding that he “thought it best to leave their correction to the intelligent and good humored reader”.
In that spirit, minor punctuation errors have been fixed. Other typographical errors have been corrected as follows:
“bim” changed to “him” (enabled him to slide)
“both-shores of the atlantic” changed to “both shores of the Atlantic”
“ceriificates” changed to “certificates” (bonds or certificates)
“cheqners” changed to “chequers” (like children at chequers)
“esconce” changed to “ensconce” (he was fain to ensconce himself)
“fortuitious” changed to “fortuitous” (fortuitous circumstances)
“He” capitalised (He banished the thought at once; but who is)