Transcriber’s Notes:
Antiquated spellings were not corrected.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.
Typographical and punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
In the Table of Contents, Chapters XV and XVI were corrected from page 200 to 211 and 216 respectively.
Figure 46 was incorrectly labelled Figure 45, this has been corrected.
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