Transcriber’s note

• The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
• Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected.
• Original spelling was kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found, except the variants “encyclopedia”, “encyclopaedia”, “encyclopædia”, and their derivatives, which are preserved as printed.
• Blank pages have been skipped.
• Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.
• Illustrations have been slightly moved so that they do not break up paragraphs while remaining close to the text they illustrate.
• Other emendations made:

  p.  14:	“Yerra” → “Terra”
  p. 141:	placement of anchor for note [267] conjectured. None found.
  p. 210:	“25.” → “9.” and “of the stock of Cham, who stock of Sem” → “of the stock of Sem”, both after checking the Latin original.
  p. 233:	Added “[On Universe and Earth]” as a general title to “Books XIII and XIV” chapter, both in this page and in the Table of Contents.
  p. 243:	placement of anchor for note [347] conjectured. None found.
  p. 264:	Added “[Isidore’s Use of the Word Terra]” as a title to Appendix I, taken from the Table of Contents.