- The position of the illustrations has been changed to better fit with
the context. The Frontispiece illustration noted in the "List of
Illustrations" is missing from the original book upon which this digital
version is based and therefore its location has not been indicated.
- Illustration captions in {brackets} have been added by the transcriber
for reader convenience.
- In general, geographical references, spelling, hyphenation, and
capitalization have been retained as in the original publication. This
includes a few inconsistencies across the text. For example, the word
"tomorrow" is more or less equally written as both "tomorrow" and
"to-morrow".
- Minor typographical errors--usually periods and commas--have been
corrected without note.
- Significant typographical errors have been corrected. A full list of
these corrections is available in the Transcriber's Corrections section
at the end of the book.
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