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Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Subscripted characters are indicated by {subscript}.
The following misprints have been corrected:
"imgaes" corrected to "images" (page 128)
"bove" corrected to "above" (page 177)
"verticle" corrected to "vertical" (page 239)
"colo" corrected to "color" (Index)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and
hyphenation have been retained from the original.
The inverted "8" and "S" characters at the top of page 45 cannot be
properly represented in this text version.