Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Some apparent errors are noted below.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Page 72: “graneries” was printed that way.

Page 76: “watchward” was printed that way.

Page 158: “seige” was printed that way.

Page 262: “Berkely” was printed that way; may be a reference to the Irish philosopher George “Berkeley.”

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and repositioned after the main text of the book, just before the advertisements.