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Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. Inconsistencies in the punctuation in the list of illustration captions have been resolved, without any annotation here. In that sequentially numbered list, number 126 had been misprinted as 216, and has been corrected.
On p. 368, the paragraph derived from William Jocob refers to William Jacob’s An historical inquiry into the production and consumption of precious metals, Vol. I., 1831. The statistics given are extracted from multiple pages, which makes the mis-matched closing quotation mark misleading at best.
Lapses in punctuation in the advertising pages have also been silently addressed.
Hyphenation is not always consistent. Where the hyphen appeared at the end of a line, it was retained or removed based on the usage elsewhere in the text.
The references are to the page and line in the original. The following issues should be noted, along with the resolutions.
| 66.20 | In this he dident do his dooty[,/.] | Replaced. |
| 75.30 | Tur[n]in to the lot of high-toned cattle | Inserted. |
| 86.22 | “Why, Jobe,” says[,] I, | Added. |
| 118.17 | and as a differe[u/n]ce of $400 | Transposed. |
| 288.7 | Since the world-wide demonetization of silver[,] gold only | Inserted. |
| 294.1 | gold and silver are ho[a]rded or exported | Inserted. |
| 309.5 | which resulted in clearing Massachu[s]etts of debt | Inserted. |
| 313.2 | so [plenty] here. | sic plentiful? |
| 320.25 | or duties on imports, supp[p]osing that | Removed. |
| 324.32 | The Dem[o]crats | Added. |
| 325.18 | The Act of December 17, 1860 (Statutes [11/12]) | Wrong volume. |
| 330.36 | whose motto was[./,] “Act in the living present.” | Replaced. |
| 331.32 | the amount of indem[n]ity due Germany | Inserted. |
| 342.26 | such money to[ to] be kept | Removed. |
| 346.4 | when c[a/o]mpared with gold | Replaced. |
| 348.16 | put public obligatio[n/u]s into stocks | Inverted. |
| 348.23 | is villainy unnamed and unnam[e]able. | Inserted. |
| 349.24 | s[i/u]bmit to the gold standard | Replaced. |
| 357.7 | and of Threadneedle St[r]eet in London | Inserted. |
| 368.8 | William J[o/a]cob, F. R. S. | Replaced. |
| 384.28 | 1[9/8]90 to more than all the assessed value | Replaced. |
| 396.32 | manner i[u/n] which the business | Replaced. |
| 397.5 | according to the chara[c]ter | Inserted. |
| 397.30 | when nece[c/s]sary for the public good | Replaced. |
| 497.33 | count[r]y>, as in Switzerland and Belgium, | Inserted. |