Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
The [bracketed] footnotes are as in the original.
Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged.
ς (final form sigma) in the middle of a word has been normalized to σ. Greek diacritics were normalized to be all present or all missing, according to their preponderance in the quotation.
The [paragraph] starting "Page 2, column 2" has an unmatched quote.
The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were identified but left as printed:
Vanderkemp and Vander Kemp
Potomac and Patomac
Postlethwayte and Postlethwaite