Transcriber's Notes
Reading edition
Spelling and punctuation are retained as in the original.
Footnotes were kept as close to the referring paragraph as practicable. They are essentially part of the text.
The errata section was moved to the end of the book and its changes are entered.
The following words appear both with and without hyphens.
Bee-bird
Fly-catcher
fresh-water
Gar-fish
Goat-sucker
marsh-bird
Needle-fish
north-west
Saw-fish
sea-shoare
sea-shore
whole-footed
'Both Vipers (or Adders) and Snakes, the latter in particular,'
'latte ' included a following space, so made the assumption that the word here is 'latter'.
Changed.
Page 13
'Mergus acutarostris cinereus'
'acutarostris' may be 'acutirostris' as used elsewhere.
Spelled as in original.
Page 39
'sprdding the finnes into a liuely posture do hang them'
'sprdding' is an odd spelling for spreading.
Spelled as in original.
Page 45
'with a long & strong aculeus in the tayle conceuud of'
'conceuud' is an odd spelling.
Unchanged.
Page 76
'A yarewhelp or barker [some words smeared out]'
Closing bracket added.
Page 91
'came out of his nostrells. thus much ffrom him who doth'
'ffrom' matches original.
Double 'ff' occurs several places in the book.
Page 93
'or Joannes Goropius (as the name is variously given in the "Biographie Universelle" (b. 1518, d. 1572),'
Missing closed parenthesis.
Unchanged.
Index 'Notonacton'
'Notonacton'
Refers to 'Notonecton' in all cases.
Unchanged.
Index 'Porbeagle'
'Porbeagle'
'57' may be a typo for '37'
Porbeagle is also known as 'Canis carcharius alius' or 'canis charcharius alius Jonst.' or 'Lamna cornubica'.
Unchanged.