This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text.
There were significant errors and inconsistencies in the printed index;
to address these, ditto marks and some dashes have been expanded, and
punctuation in the index, including for entries and sub-entries, has
been silently corrected and standardized. Some entries that were
originally out of alphabetical order have been reordered.
In the list of works, all punctuation has been retained as printed,
except for a few apparent printer’s errors.
Itemized changes from the original text:
• Table of Contents: Corrected page number for section “Of different
descriptions...” from 15 to 14 to match actual pagination
• p. 16, n. 12: Missing comma supplied after “Bolton Corney”
• p. 17: Corrected “bcause” to “because”
• p. 25, n. 26: Opening quotation mark omitted before “A universal
alphabet...”
• p. 32: Corrected “lankey” to “lanky”
• p. 38: Supplied period after “1” to match other list entries
• p. 41: Supplied period after “by a lady” in entry 44
• p. 41: Replaced center dot with period after “by a lady” in entry 17
• p. 47: Supplied period apparently omitted by printer after “Lond” in
entry 92.
• p. 51: Supplied period apparently omitted by printer after “Countess
Temple” in entry 138.
• p. 52: Corrected “Twelve years a go, atale” to “Twelve years ago, a
tale” in entry 141
• p. 52: Corrected “Encyclopœdia Brittanica” to “Encyclopædia
Brittanica”
• p. 53: Added dividing line before “A few words on Swimming” for
consistency
• p. 58: Corrected “Arithmetical class book” to “Arithmetical
class-book” in index to match reference in text
• p. 54: Corrected “different discriptions of” to “different
descriptions of”
• p. 55: Corrected “Fictious names of authors” to “Fictitious names of
authors”
• p. 57: Corrected “Spain yesterday and to day” to “Spain yesterday and
to-day”
• p. 58: Corrected “Truewitt, T.” to “Truewit, T.” in index to match
reference in text
Ditto marks in the index have been replaced with text.
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