Transcriber's Notes:

On page 15 some text is missing it is marked as ***.

Other than the corrections listed below, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.

The following misprints have been corrected:

• changed
  "with "Hemp' and "Flax," where"
  into
  "with "Hemp" and "Flax," where" (page 8)
• changed
  "the "15,000 tons of Rags estimated by"
  into
  "the "15,000 tons of Rags" estimated by" (page 22)