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.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected and moved to the end of the book, after the Index.

Text uses “post office” and “postoffice”, “post roads” and “postroads”; both forms retained here.