+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | The scans on which this e-book has been based have been | | generously made available by the Internet Archive. | | | | Footnotes have been moved to directly under the paragraph or | | table they refer to. | | | | Page 40: the July 1886: possibly a word is missing (issue or | | similar). | | | | Page 254 and further: body weights given in the tables do not | | always result in the average weights given in the tables. | | | | Where the scans were not clear, the text has been completed | | based on other scanned copies and on 'best guesses.' | | | | Inconcistencies (including hyphenation) and (typographical) | | errors in the original text have not been changed, except as | | indicated below. Some names are spelled inconsistently even | | when they (probbaly) refer to the same person: Mc... and M'...,| | Haig and Haigh, Hornemann, Horneman and Horniman, Langmore and | | Longmore, and Revell and Revel, etc. These have not been | | changed. | | | | Changes and corrections made to the text: | | Some obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been | | corrected silently; | | page 44: 'Bridgenorth' changed to 'Bridgnorth'; | | page 53 (chapter title): 'OARMANSHIP' changed to | | 'OARSMANSHIP' as elsewhere; | | page 155: 'at a gift' changed to 'as a gift'; | | page 257: 'Uppleby' changed to 'Appleby'; | | page 263: 'Magdalen' changed to 'Magdalene;' | | page 267: year (1851) added above 'Stewards' Cup'; | | page 272: 'Darrock' changed to 'Darroch'; | | page 279, 282: 'Edwardes Moss' changed to 'Edwardes-Moss'; | | page 281: 'Michison' changed to 'Mitchison'; | | page 304: 'Feildep Weir Lock' changed to 'Feildes Weir Lock';| | page 333: 'das attischen Staates' changed to 'des attischen | | Staates'; |