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 “Mr Strahan,

“of that Majority which has doomed my Country to de-

“struction,—You have begun to burn our Towns and

“murder our People,—Look upon your Hands!—They

“are stained with the Blood of your Relations!—You and

“I were long Friends:—You are now my Enemy,—and

The modern method of treating a short extract in the type of the text is to narrow the measure by indenting it one em on each side in every line. So treated, the quotation-marks may be omitted at the beginning and the end of paragraphs: the change of indention should be enough to denote quoted matter. For an extract that fills less than two pages this method of indention is satisfactory, but when the extract exceeds two facing pages the distinction made by special indention is not perceptible. Under ordinary conditions, extracts, letters, and documents that make more than two pages are most pleasing to author and reader in the appendix.

Another method of presenting the extract is to indent it two or more ems at the left, in the style of motto indention, making all lines of full width at the right. This makes the page lopsided.