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All these obvious peculiarities may be imitated by a 

 skilful hand, and it is only more minute characteristics 

 which serve for the certain identification of handwriting. 



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Fig. 52. — ^MnsruTE Characteristics of Handwriting Lines. 

 (After Frazer.) 



The latter are studied by two methods, the statistical 

 and the microscopical. First, the measurements of the 

 distance between certain letters in a given word, of the 

 ratio of heights to breadths in certain letters, and of the 

 Angular glope of certain long strpkeS; when averaged. 



