Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant
preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of
inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
Currency symbols were italicized in the original book. To make the
Plain Text version of this eBook easier to read, those symbols are
not marked as italics, but are displayed here as “ℓ.”, “s.”, and “d.”
(without quotation marks).
Footnote 3, originally on page 5: The day of the month was missing.
Footnote 64, originally on page 178: “M‘Culloch’s” was printed that
way, with the right-curling apostrophe.
Page 186: “controul” was printed that way.