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Page 5. There were two pages numbered 5, which are the last page of the Introductory Remarks—the latter is now {5a}—and the first page of Chapter I.

Page 86. The number 44,557 at the end of the table was not printed clearly, and so could be erroneous in this edition.

Page 93, Fig. 29. Changed “1 : 2 470,000” to “1 : 2,470,000”.

Page 104n. The note beginning “Length of the Bosphorus” had no anchor in the text. A new one has been placed on page 103, after “shores of Europe and Asia.”

Page 152n. In the table, the row headings in the left columns were indented in the printed book in an unhelpful fashion. Of the three rows headed “Turkey in Europe”, “Turkey in Asia”, and “Tripoli, &c.”, the first represents the sum of the rows above, while the next two are independent, but all three were indented the same. In this edition, the row heading indents have been modified to more usefully reflect the structure of the table.

Page 166n. Changed the phrase “52,500 foreigners 30,000 Austrians, 10,000 Greeks, 5,000 Germans, 1,500 French)” to “52,500 foreigners (30,000 Austrians, 10,000 Greeks, 5,000 Germans, 1,500 French)”.

Page 223. “Quadilateral” to “Quadrilateral”.

Page 238n. “Chiavari, 8 414” to “Chiavari, 8,414”.

Page 280n. The number printed for the water supply of Washington, per inhabitant, is not clear, but might be 660, as rendered herein.

Page 283n. “foriegn” to “foreign”.

Page 284n. “Pesaro, 12, 75;”, where the blank shown here was not quite blank in the print, is changed to “Pesaro, 12,375;”, on weak evidence.

Page 352n. “Cagliari, 31,9 5” is retained from the printed book.

Page 470, Fig. 191. In the caption, the name rendered herein as “Jelinek” was not printed clearly.

Page 491, Fig. 203. In the caption, “THOMAH” to “THOMAR”.

Page 500. In the second table, the number “47·223” means forty-seven thousand two hundred twenty-three. This may be the only instance in this book of a middle dot used as a digit grouper, instead of a decimal mark.