Text contains Greek. Equipment that cannot display these characters may
substitute question marks or other placeholders.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed. Words spelled differently in quoted text than elsewhere were
not changed.
Simple typographical errors were silently corrected, except as noted
below; ambiguous unbalanced quotation marks and hyphens at the ends of
lines were retained, except as noted below.
Text often uses periods where commas might be expected. As the author’s
intent is unknown, all of them have been retained.
The spelling and accent marks of non-English words have been retained
as printed in the original book; some possible or likely errors are
noted below, but not comprehensively.
Footnotes, originally at the bottom of the page, have been renumbered
and moved to the end of each chapter. The footnotes to a footnote
retain their original letter-identifications.
In footnotes, the letter “l.” and the number “1.” look alike, so the
representations of some of them here may be incorrect.
Page 2: “but he produces” was printed as “but he produce,” (with a
comma instead of an “s”); changed here. “produce,” was the last word on
the line, and the last word on the next line was “latters”, which has
been changed here to “latter”.
Page 34: “At present it is cultivated” was printed as “A-present” with
the hyphen at the end of the line; changed here.
Page 84: “Recréations” was printed that way, with just one accented “é”.
Page 84: “de la Congr. de St. Maur,” was printed as “de la de Congr. St.
Maur,” but changed here based on examination of an earlier edition.
Page 99: “of trying to what distance” was printed that way.
Page 173: “They consider the forming the strata” was printed that way.
Page 177: “Lottichii” was imperfectly printed, so the “ii” may be
something else, such as “Lottichius”, which appears on page 324.
Page 239: “recals” was printed that way.
Page 241: The closing quotation mark at the end of the paragraph ending
“be admitted into this association”, appears to belong after the
sentence ending “should not be excluded”. Later in the same paragraph,
“insure his houses” was printed that way.
Page 295: Extraneous closing quotation mark removed at end of poem.
Footnote 1013, referenced on page 326: “Arzneywissenschaft” may be a
misprint for “Arzneiwissenschaft”.
Page 354: Missing closing single-quotation mark for text beginning “‘Si
fanno certi orologii”.
Page 419: “lay old of the wire” was printed that way.
Page 454: Missing closing quotation mark added after “in great quantity
at Marseilles.”
Page 462: Closing quotation mark added after “fall upon the countess.”
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