Obsolete spelling that was common for its time has been retained.
Variations in hyphenation have been regularised if a generally agreed
usage was observed but left unchanged otherwise.
Page headers that appear in the book are included in this transcribed
text as section headings.
The single footnote has been re-indexed using a number and moved to the
end of the book.
The cover image was created by Thiers Halliwell and is placed in the
public domain.