OF THE ARROW-HEADED CHARACTER. 503 
would naturally assist in facilitating the removal 
of the style from the surface of the clay. | 
With regard to the variety, No. 3, it was simply 
produced by trailing or drawing the point of the 
style towards the inscriber or brickmaker, which 
simple action would instantly produce the tail 
which distinguishes it from the others. 
Having thus alluded to the manner in which 
the Babylonians produced the arrow-head charac- 
ters on their bricks and pottery, I shall, ere I pass 
on to the concluding part of my subject, make men- 
tion of the mode by which they impressed the 
sides of some of their bricks with certain tablets 
of characters, which doubtless was a system in- 
troduced after the invention of “the style pro- 
duced” character; namely, that which we have 
been hitherto describing, where each individual 
elementary or single arrow-head is the result of a 
separate and distinct impression of the style of 
which I need only refer my readers to Fig. 6, 
which I consider as of the highest value in sup- 
port of the truth of my discovery ; namely, as to 
the mode originally employed in the production 
of these singular characters. 
