Old English lettering on the pages preceding the Table of Contents is represented here in boldface.

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

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

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Running page headers are shown here as Sidenotes, usually positioned just above the paragraph they summarize. When such Sidenotes summarize footnotes, they are positioned above the paragraphs that referenced those footnotes.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Footnotes have been renumbered to continue the sequence begun in Volume I.

Page 254: Missing footnote anchor added by Transcriber. Based on the context of the text, this likely is in the right place.

Page 276: “6 1-2” was printed that way.

Page 306: Missing footnote anchor added by Transcriber. This may not be in the right place. The document cited in the footnote is easily found by an online search.

Footnote 58, originally on page 311: “untill” was printed that way.

Page 461: Page numbers for the entry, “Yawl, importance of, to steamboat” were omitted in the original book and added by the Transcriber, based on an examination of the main text.