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Transcriber’s Notes:

List of Illustrations added.

Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.

Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.

Normalized instances of “Lakeville” (p. 180, p. 181) to the more frequent “Lakeview” Preparatory Institute.