TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, waterways, water-ways; Marquis, Marquess; roughshod, rough-shod; centinel; disquisition; poliorketics; evangel.