Second: Nos. 2, 3 and 4 started with the identical characters which made up No. 1.
Third: While certain lines in Nos. 2, 3 and 4 were heavier than others, no such distinction was observable in the characters forming No. 1.
Fourth: This distinction was even more marked in the longer specimen written by another hand, viz.: No. 5.
Fifth: This distinction, which we will call shading, occurred intermittently, sometimes in two consecutive characters, but never in three.
Sixth: This shading was to be seen now on one limb of the character it apparently emphasized and now on another.
Seventh: In the three specimens of the seven similar characters commencing Nos. 2, 3 and 4, the exact part shaded was not always the same as for instance, it was the left arm of the second character in No. 2 which showed the heavy line, while the shading was on the right-hand arm of the corresponding character in No. 3.
Eighth: These variations of emphasis in No. 4 coincided sometimes with those seen in No. 2 and again with those in No. 3.
Ninth: Each one of these specimens, saving the first, ended in a shaded character.
Tenth: While some of the characters were squares or parts of a square, others were in the shape of a Y turned now this way and now that.
Eleventh: These characters were varied by the introduction of dots, and, in some cases, by the insertion of minute sketches of animals, birds, arrows, signs of the zodiac, etc., with here and there one of a humorous, possibly sarcastic, nature.