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fo near. us-as to fill cureysand:fancies witha fenfe of the: vaftnels: of it, 
‘may. by alittle Diftance;.and; fome ;convenient) Diasinifhing Glafles, be 
made -vanifh, into a. fearce, vifible'Speck, or Point (as Ihave often 
try’d on the 4/oon, and (whennot too bright) on the Suz it felf.) So, 
could a Mechanical contrivance fuccesfully anfwer our Theory, we might 
fee the leaft {pot as big as the Earth ad 5 and DifCoyer, as Des Cartes Disp. ch, 
alfo conjectures,-d8.areat'a Waiiety of Bodies in'the Wo; or Planets, as in *9- § 9 
the Earth, 3 
. But leavirig thefe Dileoverics to future Induftries;we thall.proceedto - 
add one Obfervation mote:of a paiatcommonly fo:call’'d,that is, the mark ~*~ 
of a full top, or period. And for this purpofel obferyed many both printed 
ones and writtex 3 and;among multitudes] found. few: of'them moréronnd 
or regular then this which, Ishave.delineated in the third figure of the? fe- 
cond Scheme; but veryany abundantly more disfigur'd; and for the 
‘moft part if théy feemd equally round to:the:eye, ‘1 found thofe: points 
that had been ‘made by a:Cepper-plate, and: Roll-prefs, to be as misfhapen 
as thofe which had been made with Types, the moft curious and {mothly 
engraver ftrokes and pojnis, looking but.as fo many furrows and holes, and. 
their printed. impreffions,, but like fuutty daubings ona matt of uneven 
floor with a blunt extinguifht brand. orftick’s end... And as. for poimts 
made with;apex they were much more, rneged and deformed. Nay,having 
view d certain pieces of ewteeding curious writing of the kind (one of 
whichinthe bredth of.a two-pence comptis'd the Lords prayer, the Apoftles 
Creed, the ten Commandments, and about half a dozen verfes befides of the 
Bible, whofe lines were fo fmall and near together, that 1 was unable to 
wumber them with my, #aked eye, a very ordinary AGcrofcope, [had thena- 
bout me, inabled me to fee that what the Writer of it had afferted was 
true, but withall difcoverd of what pitifull bungling feribbles and {crawls 
‘it was compos d,Arabiaw and China charaGers being almoft as well fhap'd 5 
yet thus much] muftfay for the Man, that it was ‘for the moft part legible 
enough, though in fome places there;wanted a good fantfy well prepofeft 
tohelp one through. _ If this manner of fwal! writing were made eafe and 
pratticable (and | think I know fucha one, but have never yet made 
tryal of it, whereby one might be inabled to write a great deale with much 
eafé, and accurately enough in avery little roome.) it might be of very 
good ufe to convey /ecret Intelligence without any danger of Difcovery 
or ee es _ Butto come again tothepoint. The Irregularities of it 
are caufed by three or four coadjutors, one of whichis, the uweven furface 
of the paper, which at beft appears no {mother then a very courfe piece of 
fhag'd cloth, next the irregularity of the Type or Ingraving, anda third isthe 
rough Daubing of the Printing-Inkthat liesuponthe inftrument that makes = - 
the impreflion, toall which, add. the varzation made by the Different 
lights and shadows, and you may have fufficient reafonto ghefs that a point 
may appear miuch more xg/y then this, which I have here prefented, which 
though it appear'd through the Afcrofcope gray, like a great fplatch of 
London dirt, about three inches over; yet to the zaked eye it was black, 
and no bigger then that in the midft.of the Circle A, And could Lee 
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