Transcriber’s notes:

In this transcription a black dotted underline indicates a hyperlinkto a page or footnote; hyperlinks are also highlighted when the mousepointer hovers over them. Page numbers are shown in the right margin.Footnotes are located at the end of the book.

The text contains a few typographic characters that will not necessarilydisplay correctly with all viewing devices. If some of the characterslook abnormal, first ensure that the device’s character encoding isset to Unicode (UTF-8). The default font might also need to be changedto a Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu, Segoe UI Symbol orFreeSerif.

The following typographic errors have been corrected silently:
cought —> caught
conderable —> considerable
rhubard —> rhubarb
therfore —> therefore
smoaked —> smoked
teized —> seized
choaked —> choked
wereat —> were at
inculation —> inoculation
throngh —> through
anamalous —> anomalous

Archaic spellings are as in the original but archaic long ‘s’ letters(ſ) have been replaced by the standard letter ‘s’.

Spelling inconsistencies such as dram/drachm, and unpaired square bracketsare as in the original.

A short table of contents has been inserted by the transcriber toassist the reader.

The cover image of the book was created by the transcriber and isplaced in the public domain.