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XXVIII. A porta le Bridge. 

 A bridge, portable in a cart with fix horfes, which in a 

 few hours time may be placed over a river half a mile broad, 

 whereon with much expedition may be tranlported horie, 

 toot, and cannon. 



XXIX. A moveable Fortification. 

 A portable fortification able to contain five hundred fight- 

 ing men, and vet in fix hours time may be let up, and made 

 cannon proof, upon the fide of a river or pafs, with cannon 

 mounted upon it, and as complete as a regular fortification, 

 with half moons and countericarps. 



XXX. A rifing Bulwark. 

 A way in one night's time to raifc a bulwark twenty or 

 thirty foot high, cannon proof, and cannon mounted upon 

 it, with men to overlook, command and batter a town ; for, 

 though it contain but four pieces, they (hall be able to dii- 

 chanse two hundred bullets each hour. 



XXXI. An approaching Blind. 

 A way how fafely and fpeedily to make an approach to a 

 caille or town wall, and over the very ditch, at noon day. 



XXXII. An univerfal Char after. 

 How to compofe an univerfal character methodical and 

 eafy to be written, yet intelligible in any language; fo that, 

 if an Engliihman write it in Englifh, a Frenchman, Italian, 

 Spaniard, Irifh, Welfh, being fcholars; yea, Grecian or He- 

 brean, (hall as perfectly underftand it in their own tongue as 

 if they were perfect Englifh, diftinguifhing the verbs from 

 nouns, the numbers, tenfes, and cafes, as properly exprefied 

 in their own language as it was written in Englifh. 



XXXIII. A Needle Alphabet. 

 To write with a needle and thread, white, or any colour 

 upon white, or any other colour, fo that one ft itch mall fig- 

 nificantly (how any letter, and as readily and as eafily (how 

 the one letter as the other, and fit for any language. 

 XXXIV. A knotted Siring Alphabet. 

 To write by a knotted filk ftling, .f that every knot fhall 

 fignify any letter with comma, full point, or interrogation, 

 and as legible as with pen and ink upon white paper. 

 XXXV. A Fringe Alphabet. 

 The like by the fringe of gloves. 



XXXVI. A Bracelet Alphabet. 

 By ftrinering of bracelets. 



XXXVII. A 



