Front matter
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[Transcriber's Note: There are around 240 instances of vowels accented with macrons ( straight line above) mostly Ā or ā, with one instance of ē, and five instanses of ū, and one u that should be ū and isn't. The macron is indicative of a lengthened vowel Thus the a-macron (Ā or ā) is usually pronounced as a long a. Use of the macron is not consistent throughout the text... ...and the spelling of some place names is not consistent either: e.g. Toorkisth[=an]; Toorkisthan; Toorkistan. (There are also a number of words with 'unusual' spellings. These spellings I have corrected: territories for territorities; retrograde for retrogade; amongst for amonst. These 'period' spellings I have left intact: befel, chace, surprized, loth, gallopped, gallopping, secresy, shew, shewed, shewing, preeminence, handfull, negociation, threshhold, trellice, picketted, barricadoed, compaign. I have also retained M'Naghten for the modern McNaghten.)] Front-of-Book Illustrations: If the Frontispiece is slow to load, it is repeated at the end of CHAPTER X. The Map, however has been removed to the end of the book.
Frontispiece
View of the Outer Cave of Yeermallik, shewing the Entrance Hole to the larger Cavern Drawn by Mr Gempertz Pelham Richardson Litho