1. Misspelled words have been corrected. Obsolete and alternative spellings have been left unchanged (e.g. avigator, avigation). Spelling and hyphenation have otherwise not been standardised. Grammar has not been corrected. 2. Punctuation has been silently corrected. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 4. Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to after the paragraph. 5. Illustrations are indicated by: [Illustration: caption and/or descriptive text]. They have been moved to be outside of text paragraphs. 6. “Edit Distance” in Corrections table below refers to the Levenshtein Distance. Corrections: pg(s) Source Correction Edit Distance 25 flattering-ing flattering 4 140 (not in source) ) 1 271 verbatum verbatim 1 278 barometic barometric 1 302 extacts extracts 1