Transcriber's Note
Minor typographic errors in punctuation and spelling (omitted or transposed letters, etc.) have been repaired. Hyphenation has been made consistent where there was a prevalence of one form over another.
Archaic and variant spelling has been preserved as printed, where reference to the alternate spelling could be established from other sources, e.g. the Frith of Forth, gambling-hells, feed referring to the paying of a fee. If alternate spelling of proper nouns could not be established, it has been made consistent within the text. The spelling of other words and phrases in languages other than English has been preserved as printed.
Omitted page numbers were the location of illustrations in the original book; these were moved so that they were not in the middle of a paragraph.