Erroneous, unusual, archaic and inconsistent spelling, hyphenation,
formatting, paragraph numbering, capitalisation, choice of words,
typography, the use of quote marks, etc. have been retained, except
as listed under Changes below. Proper names and names of ships,
species, publications, etc. may be printed inconsistently.
Depending on the hard- and software used to read this book, and their
settings, not all elements may display as intended.
Page 110, Burgomaster of Malmoi: possibly an error for Burgomaster of
Malmö.
Page 246, ... about one sixteenth of a mile” (about 515 yards) ...:
at least one of the lengths is erroneous.
Page 267 and 271: there is no report number 216.
Page 363, ... which appeared in an unusual state of excitement” ...:
the opening quote mark is lacking.
Page 388, ... all parts were disfigured by sickness much so ...:
there are possibly some words missing.
Page 395: ... and the right and left gill-aperturus, or gill-splits,
...: possibly errors for gill-apertures and or gill-slits.
Page 405-406, paragraph starting “Further, and what completely sets
at rest ...: there are quote marks missing or in excess.
Page 451, ... probably he had particularly noticed that point ...:
the author may have intended ... probably he had not particularly
noticed that point ....
Changes made:
Footnotes have been moved to under the paragraphs to which they
refer, illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs.
Obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been
corrected silently.
Double quote marks and ditto marks have been standardised to “, ” and
„ respectively. Scotch names (like M’ Guire and M’Guire) have been
standardised to M’Guire (unspaced).
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