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Section II.—Block Prints. 
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book, and standing upright and reversed on alternate pages. It may be 
also noted that what has been indicated in the facsimiles (Plates X and 
XII) as the first line of the formulas of the two texts, stand, as a rule 
(though not always), alongside of one another, pointing to the conclusion 
that these two lines occupy the same position in the respective formulas, 
that is, that both are the head-lines (as assumed in the facsimiles) or 
both the foot-lines. Of the three columns one gives the text of the 
Fifth Set, and two give that of the Second Set. 
The column containing the text of the Fifth Set always occupies the 
inner side of a page, and consists of seven, or more usually eight, impres¬ 
sions of the formula of that set. But as the space is barely sufficient to 
accommodate all eight, one line of the 8th repetition is often omitted ; 
this seems to be invariably line 3, as indicated in the facsimile 
(PI. XII) ; which fact also points to line 1 being really the head-line. 
The two columns containing the text of the Second Set, always 
occupy the outer side of a page, and consist each of four impressions 
of the formula, so that there are altogether eight impressions of it on 
each page. The formula here printed is only a portion of the text of 
the Second Set, viz., formula C, or lines 9-L3 of column I of that 
text (PI. X). 
There is one exception to the arrangement above explained. On 
p. 7 there are only two columns, standing at right angles to each other, 
the outer one of which consists of four impressions of the text of the 
Second Set. The two arrangements are shown in the subjoined 
diagram ; a b c d ef denoting the text of the Fifth Set, and 1 2 3 4 5 6 
that of the Second Set. 
Regular. Exceptional. 
(1) 
abodef 
123 
123 > 
(1, 2) 
0) 
ab cdef 
(0 
456 
> 
Or 
(2) 
abcdef 
456 > 
(2) 
abcdef 
Os 
J 
(3) 
abcdef 
123 
123 ) 
(3, 4) 
(3) 
abcdef 
(2) 
456 
Or 
to> 
(4) 
abcdef 
456S 
(4) 
abcdef 
J 
(5) 
abcdef 
123 
123 ) 
(5, 6) 
(5) 
abcdef 
(3) 
Or 
to> 
(6) 
abcdef 
456 
456S 
(6) 
ab cd ef 
Os 
J 
(7) 
abcdef 
123 
123} 
; (7, 8) 
(7) 
abcdef 
(4) 
(8) 
ab cdef 
456 
456$ 
(8) 
ab cdef 
Or 
Os 
tO V 
Co* 
The correspondence in the arrangement of the texts of the two 
sets suggests that they may also correspond in their scripts and their 
meaning. We should have here a bi-script, and perhaps a bi-lingual, 
book. 
J. i. 17 
