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Transcriber's Notes:

Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were silently corrected.

Punctuation normalized.

Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.

On page 24 the printer appears to have dropped a line just after "This is not possi-." Footnote added by transcriber.

Table of Contents added by transcriber.