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The original text used the long s. This has been changed to the regular
s.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained.
The opening square bracket on page 237 appears in the original, there is
no matching closing bracket.
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paragraphs have been retained; in other cases quotation marks follow the
original even when they seem irregular.