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MANUAL OF HANDWRITING
that as we proceed upwards the lines become longer and are drawn wider apart, i.e. to base points at greater distances.
These optical effects are however delusions or deceptions
Fig. 10.
caused by the sloping nature of the strokes. For the actual fact is that the lines in all the rows are equal in length and that they are all drawn to base points equi-distant from each other as can be ascertained by verifying measurement. The impression that
