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 APPENDIX GENERAL RELATION OF FOUR EARLIEST TEXTS

speaking, the text of V (together with the parts supplied from W as printed in this book) includes the whole of W, X, and U. Allowing 8 words per line in the case of V and W, and 7 words per line in the case of X and U, the amount of matter in each appears to work out thus :—

V. 84 pages, 25 lines per page =2,100 lines= 16,800 words. Adding the parts supplied from W, viz. 41 pages, 21 lines per page + 72 lines = 933 lines = 7,464 words, we obtain a total of 16,800 + 7,464= 24,264 words. W. 140 pages, 21 lines per page + 34 lines = 2,974 lines = 23,792 words. X. 114 pages, 20 lines per page + 7 lines = 2,287 lines = 16,009 words. U. 120 pages, 1 8 lines per page = 2,160 lines = 15,120 words.

They all agree as to the general arrangement of their subject-matter, beginning with the laws of the court, and then the laws of the gwlad, and confining the triads of law towards the close ; but the most cursory examination will show great divergences in the arrangement of details, strikingly so with regard to X. The explanation of these divergences possibly