DAY COLUMNS AND NUMERAL CnAllACTERS. 



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extends over upon the next page or plate, it is always to be understood that 

 ihe one whicli precedes is to have its left margin placed to the riglit margin 

 of that which follows, and that the day column at the left of a division refers 

 to all that stand to the right of it, when thus placed, until another day col- 

 umn is reached. In order to make this clear, let me illustrate by an example. 

 On the middle division of Plate V we find a day column with two figures to 

 the riglit of it. Turning to Plate IV, we find other figures of a similar char- 

 acter, but no day column. By placing the latter (Plate IV) so that its left 

 margin joins to the right margin of the former (Plate V), we have a con- 

 tinuous series of figures of a similar character. The day column, therefore, 

 on the latter plate, relates to all on the right until we reach the next day 

 colunm, which will be found in this case on the left margin of Plate III, as 

 in the annexed diagram. 



V. IV. III. 



In this illustration the letters represent the days and the position of the 

 day columns. That this is the proper position of these plates in reference 

 to each other may be seen by referring to Plates XXX and XXXI, where 

 the head of the bird in the third division of Plate XXXI — there are four 

 divisions in this case — is on the right margin and the tail on the left margin 

 of Plate XXX} 



' By binding together the plates, exactly the reverse of Brasseui-'s paging— as is done in many 

 copies — we will probably have them arranged in the order intended. 



