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appears to be a misprint for "hawk".]

The danger in making changes is that you may be wrong, and we really don't want to corrupt the text. This is particularly so in some old books where archaic usages, now obsolete, may look downright wrong to modern eyes. Sometimes, though, a typo is just so blindingly obvious that it warrants immediate replacement. Even in these cases, conscientious people will sometimes add a note, something like:

[Transcriber's Note: in