Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been silently corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed and some silently added when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text and inconsistent or archaic usage have been retained.
Page 81: replaced “Chinaman’s cues” with “Chinaman’s queues”.
Page 163: replaced “anonymous genuises” with “anonymous geniuses”.
Page 179: replaced “Jules Verçel” with “Jules Vercel”.
Page 256: replaced “glades of glass” with “glades of grass”.
Page 361: replaced “letters to Liebniz” with “letters to Leibniz”.
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