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LONDON: TAYLOR, WALTON, AND MABERLY, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1848.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Pg xix: ‘which’ replaced by ‘the’ to match the title of the section. 117: ‘Spunge’ replaced by ‘Sponge’.

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