Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired.

Inconsistent hyphenation fixed.

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P. ix: Djebel el-Mountâr appears in the index as Jebel el-Mountâr.

P. 30: a seige of Alexander the Great -> a siege of Alexander the Great.

P. 36 and index entries: Abu-Bekr was the first Khalif and Omar the second, but the text has not been changed.

P. 40: olibanum [Greek] of commerce -> olibanum [Greek] commerce.

P. 41: The characters said to be Phoenician are Hebrew characters, but the text has not been changed.

P. 71: Wten Napoleon Bonaparte -> When Napoleon Bonaparte.

P. 74: suceeded in greatly damaging the face -> succeeded in greatly damaging the face.