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Mr. Hansard, who minutely examined this pillar,considered it a rare piece of ancient learning and art,and a work of great public importance at the time itwas executed. He says: " One of these printedpieces might contain a complete subject; or a sub-ject might occupy several of them, which altogetherformed a series; each piece answering, as it were,such a purpose as the leaf of a book ; one followinganother in regular order, from the beginning to theend of any subject, as the sheets in a volume. From