Page [221]: parlimentary amended to parliamentary
Page [250]: Loadstone sic
Page [259]: Full stop added after "imagination"
Page [276]: Comma added after "Yet"
Small discrepancies between the Table of Contents and the chapter headings have been retained.
Hyphenation has been standardised. Where the hyphenated and unhyphenated version of a word occur an equal number of times, both have been retained: cocoa-nuts/cocoanuts; cross-beam/crossbeam; foot-warmer/footwarmer; night-cap/nightcap; sugar-loaves/sugarloaves; tri-coloured/tricoloured; wash-house/washhouse.