+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's notes: | | | | Obvious spelling/typographical and punctuation errors have been | | corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within | | the text and consultation of external sources. In particular, | | the word "ordnance" was consistently misspelled "ordinance" in | | the original, and has been corrected. | | | | The second line of the fourth paragraph on page 23 ("then in | | active operation, and in his recent valuable book, speaks in") | | was originally transposed to the end of the third paragraph. | | This has been corrected to restore the sense of the text. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+