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Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed, except as noted below.
Unusual and archaic spellings were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page 32: “spacious and extensive” was printed as “entensive” but
changed here.
Page 60: “1746” is a misprint; the correct date must be in the 1600's,
perhaps “1646”.
Page 63: “1798” may be a misprint for “1796”.
Page 65: “1745” is a misprint; the correct year is “1645”.
Page 75: “wo to the vanquished” was printed that way.
Page 100: “Vauban” was printed as “Vanban” but changed here.