that were placed inside a closing parenthesis have been moved outside
the parenthesis.
Page 3: A chapter heading entitled "NORTH AMERICA." has been added for
consistency with chapters listed in the publication's Contents pages.
Page 14 (footnote 6): Page number reference for "Notes on Africa"
missing in original text.
Page 20 (footnote 17): "Grande Maison, dite de Moetezuma" changed to
"Grande Maison, dite de Moctezuma".
Page 26: The second footnote on this page has been converted to appear
as block text, consistent with the remainder of the publication in
which lists of "Recent Works" appear at the conclusion of a given
section. The footnote marker has been removed.
Page 30: Removed stray opening quotation mark mid-sentence that was
not closed. 'From the base of this structure "commences an inclined'.
Page 48: The footnote on this page has been converted to appear as
block text, consistent with the remainder of the publication in which
lists of "Recent Works" appear at the conclusion of a given section.
The footnote marker has been removed.
Page 69: A chapter heading entitled "ASIA." has been added for
consistency with chapters listed in the publication's Contents pages.
Page 87 (footnote 70): The paragraph beginning "The first created man
was composed of the four elements..." contains unmatched quotation
marks in the original publication and has been left as printed.
Page 92 (footnote 75B): Opening text 'See a note to the "Dabistan,"
Vol. I. p. in which...' is missing the page number ("p.") in the
original publication.
Page 93: Changed "Archaemenian" to "Achaemenian" in the following
sentence (as originally printed): "Various combinations of a figure
shaped like a wedge, together with one produced by the union of two
wedges, constitute the system of writing employed by the ancient
Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, and the Archaemenian kings of Persia."
Page 107: Original publication is missing a numeral in what is
presumably a year in the 1800's. Transcribed here as "18_3".
Page 126: Added a footnote marker for footnote 105 at the end of
this sentence: "The last volume of the Annals of the Propaganda
Society contains an interesting narrative of a journey into Mongolia,
by the Rev. Mr. Huc."
End of Project Gutenberg's The Progress of Ethnology, by John Russell Bartlett