TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

● Fixed typos; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.

● Renumbered footnotes.

● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.

● The caret (^) serves as a superscript indicator, applicable to

individual characters (like 2^d) and even entire phrases (like

1^{st}).

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