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to believe that the so-called Beetle, which others saw, but I never, was—or is, for it cannot be certainly shown that the Thing is not still existing—a creature born neither of God nor man.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Alterations to the text:

Reformat TOC.

Change several instances of anyrate to any rate, and Sidney to Sydney.

Minor punctuation corrections.

Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies (e.g. “bedclothes”/“bed-clothes”, “pigeon-hole”/“pigeon hole”, etc.) have been left as is. Ligatured Latin characters have been modernized.

Interior images provided by the British Library via Wikipedia. Images that divided a paragraph were moved to the end of said paragraph.

[Chapter XXIII]

Change “association is synonymus with logic” to synonymous.

[Chapter XXXIX]

“Miss Coleman would let her emptey house” to empty.

[Chapter XLI]

“the most woe-begone of faces” to woebegone.

“talk in that cock-sure way” to cocksure.

[Chapter XLIV]

“indeed, extravagant attentuation, to be more...” to attenuation.

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