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VIII does not have footnote 9, 10 or 18; Book IX does not have footnote 24; Book XI does not have footnote 3. Inserted missing anchor for footnote 1 on page v. Changed "Albertham" to "Abertham" on page vii: "the God's Gift mine at Abertham." Changed "honored" to "honoured" on page xi: "most honoured citizens." Treated the explanatory text on page xxiv as a footnote (number 1) and created its anchor on page xxi. Changed "license" to "licence" in the note on page xxiv: "only poets have licence." Changed "Bibliotheque" to "Bibliotheque" in the footnote on page xxix: "the Bibliotheque Nationale." Changed "Theosebeia" to "Theosebia" and inserted closing double quotation mark after "written to Theosebia, etc....'" on page xxx. Left "loadstone" on page 2 although it's spelled "lodestone" everywhere else, because it's in a quote. Changed "silver-mines" to "silver mines" on page 5: "the silver mines at Freiberg." 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In particular, the entries for the 22nd, 28th and 31st needles do not add correctly. In the table on page 258, the number for the siliquae of copper was sometimes in the sextulae column. These were corrected. The affected lines were the ones for needles 13, 22 and 24. There is some other error (uncorrected) for the 17th needle; probably it should have another sextula of silver. Filled in the missing "4" in the line for the 8th needle in the table on page 260. Changed "52" to "25" in the line for the 3rd weight in the table for the "greater" weights on page 261. Changed "stele" to "stelae" on page 279: "Certain stelae." Changed "hanging-wall" to "hangingwall" on page 279: "the hangingwall rock;" and on page 292: "from the hangingwall." Changed "lead" to "led" in the footnote on page 281: "led through a series." Changed "Humpfrey" to "Humphrey" in the footnote on page 283: "William Humphrey." Changed "Erbisdroff" to "Erbisdorff" on page 304: "tin-stuff of Schlackenwald and Erbisdorff." 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Changed two references for Magnes on page 625 from "584" to "585." Changed the reference for Nuremberg, Scale of Weights on page 626 from "264" to "263." Changed "Pickscheifer" to "Pickschiefer" in its index entry on page 626. Changed the reference for Proustite on page 626, and the references for Pyrargyrite, for Ruby Silver, for Silver, for Silver Glance and for Silver Ores on page 627, from "109" to "108." Changed the reference for Quicksilver on page 626 from "111" to "110." Changed "Stuices" to "Sluices" on page 626, in the index entry for "Pockets in Alluvial Sluices." Changed the references for Schneeberg, St. George mine and for St. George Mine on page 627 from "92" to "91." Changed "Steinmack" to "Steinmarck" in its index entry on page 628. In the Index to Persons and Authorities (starting page 630), there are a number of references to page 599 that appear to make more sense as references to 603, but which were not changed. 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