Nineteenth century spellings and inconsistencies in spelling and
hyphenation are retained. Apparent inconsistencies in transliterations
from numerous languages are also retained.
Minor changes to punctuation or formatting have been made without
comment. Where "ditto" was used in lists and tables, these have been
replaced with explicit repeat of the word above. Where changes have
been made to the text to correct printer's errors, these are listed at
the end of the book.
In this Plain Text version of the e-book, unicode characters (UTF-8)
are used for special characters and diacritics in the numerous
languages in this e-book, including the following. These should appear
as described, but may depend on the software and fonts used to view the
e-book.
ć ǵ ś ́t acute accent (or stress mark)
ā ē ī ō ū ̄ macron
ă ĕ ĭ ŏ ŭ ̆ breve (short vowel)
ḋ ġ ṗ ṡ ṫ dot above
ḥ ḷ ̣c ̣x dot under
œ oe-ligature
The back tick (´) is used in Greek script to represent the "keraia"
which denotes numbers.
Italic typeface is represented by _underscores_; bold by
=equals signs=; gesperrt by ~tilde signs~; and small caps by UPPERCASE.
The original Table of Contents was presented at the end of the book. In
this version of the e-book the Table of Contents is presented following
the Preface.
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