510 REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN 
lonian arrow-headed character. That it is inti- 
mately connected with bricks I trust what I have 
endeavoured to set forth in former pages, will in 
some degree substantiate: it is simply by follow- 
ing out the ideas in connexion with bricks and 
moist clay, that I am induced to submit to the 
attention of my readers the above figure, illus- 
trating the probable origin of this remarkable 
character. Let us only for a moment suppose 
that a hardened or dry brick falling on some one 
of its angles, either intentionally or by accident, 
impressed or indented its corner into the side of a 
soft or undried brick, as represented above, what 
would occur? and what would be the form and 
appearance of the mark so produced in the side 
of the soft brick by the angle of the hard one? 
Nothing more or less than a most perfect arrow- 
head! having all and every characteristic of those 
actually found on the bricks of Babylon, the 
size and proportions depending of course upon the 
force and inclination of the falling brick, as it 
came in contact with the other. That such an 
action of the corner of a hard brick on the sur- 
face of a soft one, DoES produce an arrow-headed 
character, with all its striking and remarkable 
characteristic features, there is no room for doubt, 
as I have put it to the test of experiment; and 
