Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
Spelling and punctuation are non-standard. Occasional sentences end without punctuation or begin with a lower case letter. Quotation marks appear randomly through the text. A double close quote is frequently used to indicate an abbreviated word. A lower case "s" was substituted for ſ throughout the book. The letter ‘c’ with a cedilla above it is transcribed as [‘c]. The letter ‘o’ with an umlaut below is transcribed as [o:].
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and moved to the end of the book. Footnotes [10], [11], [12], and [15] have multiple anchors. Page headers were converted to sidenotes.
In the Account of Belem Port Charges, a mid-dot was substituted for a handwritten non-number non-letter character. Illegible handwriting is identified [TN illegible handwriting].