Some pages were numbered incorrectly as a result of transposition of digits (89/98, 701/107). An unusual group of characters ‘O|O’ occurred in three places, two of which were non-existent in the French and have been deleted, while the third has been correctly rendered as ‘100’ in accordance with the French text. In several locations the author has changed units of measurement from ‘pints’ to ‘lbs’, and in this transcription the change has been noted by a hidden comment as described above.
Footnotes added by the translator have been identified by upper-case letters to distinguish them from the French author’s original footnotes which are numbered. Some of the latter were significantly abbreviated/redacted by the translator.
The book cover was adapted from the original by the transcriber, who added a title to an otherwise featureless cover.