Transcriber’s notes:
§ Footnotes and imitations, which were originally placed at the bottoms of the pages on which they were referenced, have been gathered at the end of each chapter.
§ The original footnote pointers (asterisks, obelisks, etc.) have been replaced by Arabic numerals.
§ All ligatures present in the original text have been resolved except æ and œ.
§ Opening quotes in long quotations have been removed, except on the first line.
§ Greek sigma-tau and omicron-upsilon ligatures have been split into their components.
§ All variants of Greek letters have be replaced by their basic form. This applies to Beta without descender, long Tau, Omega Pi, open Theta, open Phi.
§ Archaic spelling has been retained. If in doubt, no correction has been made. For example, the following have not been corrected:
page : original : correction —————————————————————————————————— 308 : babes and suckling’s mouths : babes and sucklings’ mouths 327 : And junto’s speak : And juntos speak 422 : independant : independent
§ Spellings, of which it is assumed that they were not intended by the authors, have been put right. These corrections were only made after consulting earlier and/or later editions of the Rolliad.