TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.

The original text used the long-form s; this has been replaced by

the normal s in the etext.

The original text printed ‘ct’ as a ligature, and is displayed

simply as ‘ct’ character pair in the etext.

Fractions are displayed as a./b., for example 3./4., similar to

the format of the original text.

Whole numbers are always terminated with a period, as in the

original text, for example ‘about 1800. is the number of ... ’.

The pound currency sign in the text is l, which looks very similar

to the number 1, and the five occurrences have been italicized in

the etext. For example one hundred pounds is shown as 100_l._,

instead of 100l.

A superscript is denoted by ^{}, for example 1./5.^{th.}.

All changes listed in the Errata at the back of the book have been

applied to the etext.

Some other minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the

book.

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