Transcriber’s Notes:

Variable spelling has been retained for:
after-thoughts and afterthoughts
coast-line and coastline

Book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Numerous words have multiple spelling variations in the text. These have been left unchanged unless noted below:

p 29 — added missing the (in the future).
p 75 — at corrected to as (he exclaimed, as he gazed).
p 86 — added missing the (in the future).
p 111 — added missing the (in the future).