Transcriber's Note:

Some presumed printer's errors have been corrected. In particular, punctuation has been normalized and duplicate words were removed. Other corrections are listed below with the original text (top) and the replacement text (bottom):

Gerni (Contents)
Gemmi

herren (Chapter I)
Herren

Schaffhaussen (Chapter I)
Schaffhausen

intere t (Chapter II)
interest

caries (Chapter III)
carries

withont (Chapter IV)
without

fouud (Chapter V)
found

Agazziz (Chapter VI)
Agassiz