Transcriber’s noteThe book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected.Original spelling was kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found, except the variants “encyclopedia”, “encyclopaedia”, “encyclopædia”, and their derivatives, which are preserved as printed.Blank pages have been skipped.Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.Illustrations have been slightly moved so that they do not break up paragraphs while remaining close to the text they illustrate.Other emendations made:p. 14:“Yerra” → “Terra”p. 141:placement of anchor for note [267] conjectured. None found.p. 210:“25.” → “9.” and “of the stock of Cham, who stock of Sem” → “of the stock of Sem”, both after checking the Latin original.p. 233:Added “[On Universe and Earth]” as a general title to “Books XIII and XIV” chapter, both in this page and in the Table of Contents.p. 243:placement of anchor for note [347] conjectured. None found.p. 264:Added “[Isidore’s Use of the WordTerra]” as a title to Appendix I, taken from the Table of Contents.
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