...command that some light might be thrown on the uses of this object, but after a greatly interrupted study of it for over seven years I reluctantly yield...nearer an explanation of it than when I first began, contented, however, with the conviction that the usual attribution assigned to it has been disproved....

...for rejecting them all, he says finally (pg. 142): „ after a greatly interrupted study of it for seven „years I reluctantly yield the solving of...an explanation of „it than when I first began". After this negative result of Prof. MORSE'S investigations we have been very much pleased with receiving...

...holder ! These and other suggestions are carefully considered by Professor Morse, who gives conclusive reasons for rejecting them all, but adds none of his...saying (p. 142) that after "a study of it for over seveu years I reluctantly yield the solving of the enigma to others, having got no nearer an explanation...

...in their attempts to solve the riddle(3) and closed with the remark : "After a greatly interrupted study of it for over seven years, I reluctantly yield...nearer an explanation of it than when I first began, contented, however, with the conviction that the usual attribution assigned to it has been disproved."...

...as a practical archer the author dismisses the bow-puller hypothesis, and, indeed, he says he must " reluctantly yield the solving of the enigma to others,...nearer an explanation of it than when I first began.'' Perhaps the most plausible view is that it may have been bound to the band to enable a chariot driver...

...as a practical archer the author dismisses the bow-puller hypothesis, and, indeed, he says he must " reluctantly yield the solving of the enigma to others,...nearer an explanation of it than when I first began." Perhaps the most plausible view is that it may have been Ixiund to the band to enable a chariot driver...