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.

Multiple paragraphs within quoted text inconsistently begin with quotation marks. These inconsistencies have been retained here.

Page 9: “Frith of Murray” probably should be “Firth”.

Page 13: “all his studies” was misprinted as “stndies”; changed here.

Page 26: “a monument” was misprinted as “monment”; changed here.

Page 47: “Sweedish” was printed that way.

Page 113: “Pittssylvania” was printed that way, but looks like a printer’s typesetting error.