(urth) Appearances of Inire

[David Stockhoff]

Correct. Two pages make a leaf.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 6/28/2010 10:22 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Just pointing out, that Gurloes's book is likely printed on both 
>> sides, which means one half of one side of one sheet = 4 families per 
>> page.
>
> 'It gives about half a page to each. There are seven hundred and 
> forty- six pages.'
>
> Unless Gurloes is like Rainman, he got the page count from the last 
> numbered page. Traditionally there is one numbered page on either side 
> of a leaf. But whatever a "page" is, there are 746 of them, and each 
> one can only have two halves, so the accommodated number of families 
> remains approx 1500.
>
> Ordinarily I wouldn't bother digressing on this, but it does establish 
> something of a maximum degree of precision for figures given in the 
> book, and I'm warming up to a new estimate on the Wall's height based 
> on Ouen's comments where it might be important.
>