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XXXVII. A Pincked Glove Alphabet. 

 By pincked gloves. 



XXXVIII. A Sieve Alphabet. 

 By holes in the bottom of a (ieve, 



XXXIX. A Lanthorn Alphabet. 

 By a lattin or plate lanthorn. 

 XL. yln Alphabet by the Smell— XLl. TaJte—XUL Touch. 

 By the fmell — by the tafte — by the touch. — By thefe three 

 fenfes as perfe&ly, diftin&ly, and unconfufedly, yea, as rea- 

 dily, as by the fight. 



XLIII. A Variation of all and each of thefe. 

 How to vary each of thefe, fo that ten thoufand may 

 know them, and yet keep the underftanding part from any 

 but their correfpondent. 



XLIV. A Key-piftol. 

 To make akey of a chamber door, which to your fight hath, 

 its wards and rofe-pipe, but paper- thick, and yet at pleafure, 

 in a minute of an hour, fhall become a perfect piftol, capable 

 to (hoot through a breaft-plate, commonly of carabine-proof, 

 with prime, powder, and firelock, undifcoverable in a ftran- 

 ger's hand. 



XLV. A moft conceited Tinder-box. 



How to light a fire and a candle at what hour of the night 

 one awaketh, without rifing or putting one's hand out of the 

 bed. And the fame thing becomes a ferviceable piilol at 

 pleafure ; yet by a ftranger, not knowing the fecret, feemeth 

 but a dextrous tinder-box. 



XLVI. An artificial Bird. 

 How to make an artificial bird to fly which way and as 

 long as one pleafeth, by or againrt the wind, fometimes 

 chirping, other times hovering, iiill tending the way it is 

 defigned for. 



XLVII. An Hour Water-ball. 



To make a ball of any metal, which thrown into a pool or 

 pail of water (hall prefently rife from the bottom, and con- 

 stantly fhow, by the fuperncies of the water, the hour of the 

 day or night, never rifing more out of the water than juft to 

 the minute it (howeth of each quarter of the hour; and if by 

 force kept under water, yet the time is not loft, but recovered 

 as foon as it is permitted to rife to the fuperficies of the water. 



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