Transcriber’s Note
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; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.
Footnotes originally were at the bottoms of pages. Here, they are just before the Index.
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.
The text in some maps is in different orientations, and sometimes indecipherable. Transcriber could not determine the correct orientation of the map in Fig. 7, and chose one that made some of the larger words upright.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Redundant hemi-title “Index” removed by Transcriber.