Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes have been collected at the end of each chapter, and are linked for ease of reference.

Illustrations have been moved to fall on paragraph breaks. With the exception of the illustration falling between pp. 170-171, all full-page illustrations had a blank reverse, and were included in the pagination. To avoid unsequential page numbers, this text merely skips those numbers.

Illustrations have been moved to fall on paragraph breaks.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, including several associated with pagination and indexing, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s [note] at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

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