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Transcriber's notes:
(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally
printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an
underscore, like C_n.
(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript.
(3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective
paragraphs.
(4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not
inserted.
(5) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek
letters.
(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE DAVIS, HENRY WINTER: "The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the
Nineteenth Century (1853), in which he combated the Southern
contention that slavery was a divine institution." 'Nineteenth'
amended from 'Ninteenth'.
ARTICLE DEAD SEA: "Among these may be mentioned 880 (1) the
explanation of a remarkable line of white foam that extends along
the axis of the lake almost every morning--supposed by Blanckenhorn
..." 'almost' amended from 'amost'.
ARTICLE DECEMVIRI: "... the name applied by the Romans to any
official commission of ten." 'commission' amended from 'commision'.
ARTICLE DEJAZET, PAULINE VIRGINIE: "French actress, born in Paris
on the 30th of August 1798, made her first appearance on the stage
at the age of five." 'August' amended from 'Ausust'.
ARTICLE DEKKER, EDWARD DOUWES: "He was ardent, provocative, perhaps
a little hysterical, but he made himself heard all over Europe."
'himself' amended from 'himelf'.
ARTICLE DEKKER, JEREMIAS DE: "(Klaagliederen van Jeremias), which
was followed by translations and imitations of Horace, Juvenal and
other Latin poets." 'Klaagliederen' amended from 'Klaagliedern'.
ARTICLE DELABORDE, HENRI FRANCOIS: "Against Sir Arthur Wellesley's
English army he fought the skillful brilliant rear-guard action of
Rolica." 'skillful' amended from 'skilful'.
ARTICLE DEMETRIUS DONSKOI: "In 1371 he won over the khan by a
personal visit to the Horde, and in 1372 he defeated the
Lithuanians at Lyubutsk." 'and' amended from 'add'.
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