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Dr. Hoernle —Antiquities from Central Asia. [Extra No. 1, 
different position from that in books Nos. IV to VI. There the heads 
of the columns are turned in the same direction on consecutive pages 
(see diagram in No. IV), while here the heads are always turned in 
opposite directions, against one another, that is, they are always turned 
reversely on alternate pages. 
No. VIII. Book. 
Belongs to M. 8. Found at Kiang Tuz. Size, 14 y 8f. Number of 
forms, 20. Paper, variety IITcZ. Surface greased, and a few burns. 
Printing rather indistinct. Riveted with two copper pegs. 
Contains besides its own proper text that of the Seventh Set. The 
latter is found only on one form, the 3rd, where it is printed, on all its 
four pages, exactly in the same way as the proper formula of the Sixth 
1st form, p. 14. Set. This formula is printed in two columns on each 
page, running, as a rule, parallel to the longer side 
of the book and consisting each of five or six impres¬ 
sions. The columns stand in no particular order, 
sometimes upright and reversed on the same page, 
sometimes so on alternate pages, sometimes in the 
same position on consecutive pages. On four pages 
(viz., on the first and last printed pages, as well as on the 13th and 
28th) the columns stand at right-angles to one another, the outer 
column consisting of only four impressions, as shown in the marginal 
diagram. 
Fifth Set. (Plates XI and XII.) 
This Set comprises eight books. Its text is found in two different 
recensions, a shorter one of three, and a longer of four lines. These I 
shall denote by Va and Yb respectively. Besides its own proper text, 
there is also found on one page of book No. VIII the text of the First 
Set. 
The shorter recension Va is found in all the books of this set; 
also in No. VII of the Fourth Set. The longer recension Yb is only 
found in No. VIII of this set, where it occurs together with recension 
Va. The two recensions only differ from each other by Yb adding a 
fourth line to the three lines of Ya. 
Two distinct blocks have been used for printing the two recensions. 
This is shown by their enclosing lines which may be seen on the 
facsimiles. The block of Ya measured 4^x1^ inches; that of Yb 
measured 4|- x inches. 
There is nothing to show which is top and bottom, or right and 
left, or beginning and end of the two formulas. From the way in which 
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