+--------------------------------------------------------------+ |                                                              | | Transcriber's note:                                          | |                                                              | | This book contains illustrations, several of which are       | | printed in mid-paragraph, either on a separate page or       | | alongside the text itself. To avoid disrupting the flow of   | | the text, the markers for these illustrations have been      | | moved to paragraph breaks. The original illustrations have   | | no captions, but descriptions have been added to them for    | | the enhancement of this text version.                        | |                                                              | | The one instance of the OE ligature in the book has been     | | replaced by OE.                                              | |                                                              | | Punctuation surrounding reported speech has been             | | regularised, all other punctuation and spelling has been     | | left as in the original text.                                | |                                                              | +--------------------------------------------------------------+