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Transcriber’s Note

• Punctuation and other obvious typographic inaccuracies were silently
corrected.

• Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.

• Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.

• Text in italics is enclosed in _underscores_.

• Text in small capitals converted to ALL CAPS.

Corrections

• p. 55: _must have had a companion_ to _must have a companion_. • p. 266: _who was always been_ to _who has always been_.

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