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The course of events since 1905, when this work first made itsappearance, and the results of further research have necessitated notonly the thorough revision of the former text and the rewriting of someof its parts, but also the discussion of a number of new topics. Butwhile the new matter which has been incorporated has added considerablyto the length of the work—the additions to the bibliography, text, andnotes amounting to nearly a quarter of the former work—this secondedition is not less convenient in size than its predecessor. Byrearranging the matter on the page, using a line extra on each, and agreater number of words on a line, by setting the bibliography and notesin smaller type, and by omitting the Appendix, it has been foundpossible to print the text of this new edition on 626 pages, as comparedwith 594 pages of the first edition.
The system being elastic it was possible to place most of the additionalmatter within the same sections and under the same headings as before.Some of the points treated are, however, so entirely new that it wasnecessary to deal with them under separate headings, and within separatesections. The reader will easily distinguish them, since, to avoiddisturbing the arrangement of topics, these new sections have beeninserted between the old ones, and numbered as the sections precedingthem, but with the addition of the letters a, b, &c. The moreimportant of these new sections are the following: § 178a (concerningthe Utilisation of[Pg viii] theFlow of Rivers); §§ 287a and 287b (concerning WirelessTelegraphy on the Open Sea); §§ 287c and 287d (concerning Mines andTunnels in the Subsoil of the Sea bed); § 446a (concerning the Cas