Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page 342: “millenium” was printed that way.

Page 366: “to smear the statues of Jupiter” was misprinted as “statutes”.

Page 387: “we have meet with a difficulty” was printed that way.

Page 387: “cm.” originally was printed as “c. m.”