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                          Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations
in hyphenation and accents remain but all other spelling and
punctuation remains unchanged.

Footnote 1219 is missing. The footnote from a different edition has
been included for information.

More doubtful typographical errors:

Page 341 They succeeded in making way with him. way changed to away.

Footnote 1620 reads L’Esaminatore, 15 Ott. 1867. This has been changed
to 15 Oct.

The footnotes are located at the end of the book.

Italics are represented thus _italic_.




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