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ing lines which still exist. These lines, e.g., are seen running right round 
the two columns of recensions Ila and life, see Plates IX and X. They 
are also seen enclosing each of the five formulas A, B, C, D, E, see Plates 
XIII and XIY. As shown by these lines, the dimensions of the blocks 
must have been about If x If" for A, 2§ x If" for C, 2| x If" for D, and 
If X If" for E. The additional portions, viz., the middle column III of 
recension IIfe, line 4 of recensions Ila and life, and line 8 of recension life, 
do not appear to have been printed separately; nor is there any evidence 
to show that separate blocks existed for printing them. 
It is probable that once there existed three blocks : (1) a block 
holding a text of 11 lines, omitting line 4 of recension Ila, and therefore 
showing tw T o blank intervals and presenting the shape of a double cross; 
I may call this recension lie; (2) a block holding a text of 12 lines, 
with one blank interval, in the shape of a single cross, being recension 
Ila; (3) a block holding a text of 13 lines, with no blank interval, being 
recension life. No book, exhibiting recension lie, has come to light. The 
block for it, therefore, cannot have been found by the treasure-seekers. If 
it had been found, it is morally certain (on the assumption of forgery) that 
books would have been printed with it and brought into the market. 
But, the block for recension lie not having been found, it is difficult to 
understand, on the one hand, how the existence of recension Ila, should 
have suggested to a forger to omit line 4 and manufacture blocks for 
A, B, D, E; or, on the other hand, how the separate existence of A, B, 
C, D and E should have suggested to a forger to combine them into one 
text Ila, and manufacture a block for it, containing the intermediate 
line 4 and a blank interval between lines 7 and 9; or again, to combine 
them into an alternative text life and manufacture for it another block 
containing the two intermediate lines 4 and 8. One can imagine a 
forger omitting extant lines, but not inventing new lines for which he 
has no pattern. Add to this that the formula F has never been found 
printed separately ; so that the forger would have had to invent, for the 
recensions Ila and life, not only the intermediate lines, but also the whole 
formula F. The improbabilities of such a theory are overwhelming. 
It follows, therefore, in the alternative, that either the books are genuine- 
or that at least the orginal blocks must have been found for the recen¬ 
sions Ila and life as well as for the formulas A, B, C, D and E. From 
these original blocks, of course, books might have been printed; but 
the forgery could have extended no further. 
With regard to the question of the beginning and end of the text, 
book No. Ill affords a similar test to that in book No. I of the First 
Set. Jn that book one end of the text is always turned towards its 
upper and lower edges, whence it may be concluded that that end 
