TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, etc. have been retained.

Accents missing from French words have not been added.

Page 100, As these pages are being printed ...: the boulder was,

indeed, swept away by a landslide in 1883.

Changes made to the text:

Obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected

silently.

Illustrations have been moved outside text paragraphs.

p. 115: “sandy beeches” has been changed to “sandy beaches”