Punctuation, hyphenation, 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.
Text uses both “angakok” and “angakut”; both retained.
Page 561: Footnote ‘A’ was not referenced in the text; Transcriber
attributed it to the title of the article.
Page 564: Transcriber’s transliteration of Greek text shown in {curly
braces}.
Page 575: “milkrosomen” was printed that way.
Page 577: Text uses both “Quan-si” and “Quansi”; both retained.
Page 580: “grewsome” was printed that way.
Page 588: “where in 1861” was printed that way, but likely is a
misprint, perhaps for “1681”, as the next paragraph says that the
plague disappeared from Europe in the eighteenth century.
Pages 601, 602: use both “Vallee” and “Vallée”; both retained.
Page 645: “Moreever” was printed that way.
Pages 669, 672: “Wood’s Holl” was spelled that way when this issue of
the magazine was published.
Page 672: Missing page reference “76” added to “Vickery” entry, based
on examination of the May, 1900 issue.
The other five issues of Volume 57 also are available at Project
Gutenberg. The eBook numbers are 47219, 47227, 47238, 47261, and 47281.