Illustrations without captions have had a description added, this is
denoted with parentheses.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the
text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a
predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Pg 12: “hundreth” replaced with “hundredth”
Pg 12: “thoroughout” replaced with “throughout”
Pg 345: “encouragaging” replaced with “encouraging”