50 to the word [Greek: legeis] in viii.

52: a _lacuna_ (as I find by counting the letters in a copy of the ordinary text) of as nearly as possible 8,805 letters,--allowing for contractions, and of course not reckoning St.John vii.

53 to viii.

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Now, in order to estimate fairly how many letters the two lost leaves actually contained, I have inquired for the sums of the letters on the leaf immediately preceding, and also on the leaf immediately succeeding the hiatus; and I find them to be respectively 4,337 and 4,303: together, 8,640 letters.

But this, it will be seen, is insufficient by 165 letters, or eight lines, for the assumed contents of these two missing leaves.