It is more like a very fine linen or silken web, but it is far closer in texture, and has never been woven in any kind of loom at all like those employed in any manufacture known to history or archaeology.

The letters, or more properly symbols, are minute, but executed with extraordinary clearness.

I should fancy that something more like a pencil than a pen, but with a finer point than that of the finest pencil, was employed in the writing.

Contractions and combinations are not merely frequent, but almost universal.

There is scarcely an instance in which five consecutive letters are separately written, and there is no single line in which half a dozen contractions, often including from four to ten letters, do not occur.