Transcriber's Notes

Archaic spellings of place names have been retained as theyappear in the original. Printer errors have been corrected.

Portrait illustrations have been moved to relevant places in the text.

Because this issue is part of a bound, sequentially paginated volume containing several other issues (available separately on Project Gutenberg), pagenumbers have been omitted from this e-text.

A table of contents has been provided forthe reader's convenience.