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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
This e-book uses the text of the original work. Inconsistent capitalisation, hyphenation and spelling have been retained (spungy/spongy and spunging/sponging; scear/sear; immoveable/immovable; Minié/Minie, bareled/barelled, brasing/brazing; Froissart/Froisart; fuse/fuze; Greenerean/Greenerian; Monk/Monck; etc.), except as mentioned below under Changes.
The two typographical forms of fractions (for example, 1/2 and 1-8th) have been retained.
The List of Plates shows (slightly) different texts from the captions in the plates themselves.
The List of Illustrations is incomplete, and not all illustrations have the captions listed in the List of Illustrations.
The sometimes slight difference in wording between the Table of Contents and the actual chapter headings has been retained.
Textual remarks
Page 12, snaphaunce is not a Dutch word; it is derived from the Dutch snaphaan.
Page 64, footnote: the original does not show the footnote anchor; the footnote has been included without its anchor. Possibly the footnote refers to the Point Blank Range data for the 10-inch and 8-inch howitzers.
Page 239, price calculations: the total for single guns should be 19_s._ 9_d._ The other amounts given in the text do not correspond with the table; this has not been changed.
Page 240, price calculations: the totals for double and single guns should be 16_s._ 3_d._ and 9_s._ 9_d._, respectively.
Page 13 (first set of advertisements), amount of shooting is possibly an error for account of shooting.
French accents have not been corrected or added (Andrê, Minie, èpanouissement, etc.), Latin accents have been retained, unless mentioned below.
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