Transcriber’s notes

The original text is followed as much as possible. There are however

some printing errors and inconsistencies in spelling that have been

corrected. These are listed below.

To represent formatting the following conventions are used:

_word_ means that “word” is in italics;

+word+ means that “word” is in small capitals.

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