Note 27 — Chapter IV · CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS.

[This word, as the context and ending of the paragraph shows, should have been spelled tones. The letter, written in English by Reis himself, is wonderfully free from inaccuracies of composition; the slip here noted being a most pardonable one since the plural of the German “ton” is “tönen,” the very pronunciation of which would account for the confusion in the mind of one unaccustomed to write in English. So far as is known, this is the only piece of English composition ever attempted by Reis.—S. P. T.]