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Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographic errors (mismatched quotes, omitted or transposed
characters, etc.) have been corrected without note. Hyphenation,
capitalisation and spelling of proper names, and use of accents has
been made consistent without note. One exception is Canot's forename,
which appears as Teodor, Teodore and Theodore throughout the text.
This has been left as printed, as has the author's use of some archaic
and variable spellings.
Incorrect page number references in the table of contents were amended
as follows: 119 to 118; 127 to 126; 215 to 214; 394 to 349.
The footnotes in the original book are sometimes numbered, sometimes
lettered. This convention has been retained in this version.
The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the title page.
The use of oe ligatures has not been retained in this version.