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Transcriber's notes:
(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally
printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an
underscore, like C_n.
(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript.
(3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective
paragraphs.
(4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not
inserted.
(5) Small and capital EZH letters are subtituted with [gh] and [Gh]
respectively. Thorn is subtituted with th or Th, and eth is
subtituted with dh.
(6) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek
letters.
(7) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: "The writers of each district wrote in
the dialect familiar to them; and between extreme forms the
difference was so great as to amount to unintelligibility ..."
'familiar' amended from 'familar'.
ARTICLE ENGLISH LITERATURE: "Even more portentous in its superhuman
dignity was the style of Edward Gibbon, who combined with the
unspiritual optimism of Hume and Robertson a far more concentrated
devotion to his subject ..." 'combined' amended from 'conbined'.
ARTICLE ENTERITIS: "The chief symptom is diarrhoea. The term
"enteric fever" has recently come into use instead of "typhoid" for
the latter disease; but see Typhoid Fever." 'symptom' amended from
'sympton'.
ARTICLE ENTRE MINHO E DOURO: "The methods and implements of the
farmers are, however, most primitive, and at the beginning of the
20th century it was not unusual to see a mule, or even a woman,
harnessed with the team of oxen to an old-fashioned wooden plough."
'it' amended from 'is'.
ARTICLE ENTRE RIOS: "... a province of the eastern Argentine
Republic, forming the southern part of a region sometimes described
as the Argentine Mesopotamia ..." 'southern' amended from
'sourthern'.
ARTICLE EPHRAIM: "... and Ephraim's proud and ambitious character
is indicated in its demands as narrated in Josh. xvii. 14; Judg.
viii. 1-3, xii. 1-6. throughout, Ephraim played a distinctive and
prominent part; it probably excelled Manasseh in numerical strength
..." 'throughout' amended from 'thoughout'.
ARTICLE EPIC POETRY: "... and Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544),
ridiculed the whole school in an Orlandino of 1526." 'Folengo'
amended from 'Folango'.
ARTICLE EPIDAURUS: "It was abandoned during the middle ages; its
inhabitants took possession of the promontory of Minoa ..."
'possession' amended from 'posession'.
ARTICLE EPILOGUE: "... and then explained to the audience what an
extremely interesting play it had been. In the second case, when
the author was less confident ..." 'extremely' amended from
'exremely'.
ARTICLE EPITHELIAL, ENDOTHELIAL: "It will be sufficient here to
give the more general characters possessed by these cells."
'sufficient' amended from 'sufficent'.
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