Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent
hyphenation in the text. These were left unchanged. Dialect, obsolete
and alternative spellings were left unchanged.
Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like
this_. Those in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. A
dozen misspelled words were corrected. One duplicated word was
removed. Footnote was moved to the end of the article. Final stops
missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added.