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Transcriber's Notes
Italicised text is surrounded by _underscores_.
Bold text is surrounded by =equals= signs.
Both M. d'Obsonville and M. D'Obsonville occur on page 99.
A number of typographical errors were corrected in the text.
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|Page| Original |Corrected to| Context |
+----+-------------+------------+--------------------------------+
| 34|appearence |appearance |of singular appearance |
| 42|mammel |mammal |the smallest living mammal |
| 46|suddently |suddenly |he came suddenly on a lion |
| 71|desease |disease |specific against cattle disease |
| 74|stic her dome|her domestic|warmth of her domestic hearth |
| 79|is |its |In its pure state |
| 79|its |is |perfume is agreeable |
| 87|inhabitated |inhabited |proximity to inhabited dwellings|
| 114|canis |Canis |Canis domesticus |
| 125|formally |formerly |less needed now than formerly |
| 188|Hippotamus |Hippopotamus|The Hippopotamus is gregarious |
| 249|if |of |one of the most |
| 255|acccording |according |according to Mrs. Bowdich |
| 354|vocacious |voracious |They are extremely voracious |
| 362|appropiate |appropriate |It will attack, and appropriate |
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Some words occur with and without hyphenation in the text.
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| Hyphenated |Instances|Unhyphenated |Instances|
+--------------+---------+-------------+---------+
|bed-room | 1 |bedroom | 5 |
|blood-hound | 1 |bloodhound | 3 |
|Blood-hound | 1 |Bloodhound | 6 |
|cat-like | 2 |catlike | 2 |
|eye-witness | 2 |eyewitness | 1 |
|farm-house | 1 |farmhouse | 1 |
|fore-feet | 2 |forefeet | 1 |
|fore-noon | 1 |forenoon | 2 |
|fore-paw | 1 |forepaw | 1 |
|fore-paws | 2 |forepaws | 1 |
|Fox-hound | 3 |Foxhound | 1 |
|fox-hound | 2 |foxhound | 1 |
|Goat-sucker | 1 |Goatsucker | 1 |
|gun-shot | 1 |gunshot | 1 |
|hedge-hog | 1 |hedgehog | 9 |
|hind-quarters | 1 |hindquarters | 1 |
|mid-day | 2 |midday | 1 |
|off-spring | 1 |offspring | 10 |
|re-discovered | 1 |rediscovered | 1 |
|road-side | 2 |roadside | 2 |
|sand-banks | 1 |sandbanks | 1 |
|sea-side | 1 |seaside | 1 |
|tortoise-shell| 1 |tortoiseshell| 1 |
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Some words occur with and without ligatures in the text.
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| Ligature |Instances|No Ligature|Instances|
+----------+---------+-----------+---------+
|Cebidae | 1 |Cebidæ | 7 |
|Corvidae | 1 |Corvidæ | 1 |
|Cotingidae| 1 |Cotingidæ | 1 |
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