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of figures instead of six for our million origin, we should reach it by this 

 scale : Tens, hundreds, ten-hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands, hundred- 

 thousands, ten-hundred-thousands, millions ; the " ten-htindreds " and 

 the "ten-hundred-thousands" being interpolated places. 



Words manulactured to meet a new want have always a somewhat 

 barbarous and uncouth sound, until familiarized by custom ; and are 

 usually received but slowly and with reluctance. Unless they can boast 

 a pedigree and a history, they must expect from the world, like other par- 

 venus, no very cordial greeting. From the habits of thought of a very 

 large majority of mankind, it is found so much easier to use old words in 

 a double sense, than to accept the precision of a new phraseology, that 

 there is little doubt the octonary notation could be much more readily 

 taught (except to children) by simply erasing the figures 8 and 9, from the 

 common arithmetic. That it is more philosophical, however, to assign 

 to everything its own appropriate name, can scarcely need a formal 

 statement ; and if the system now proposed have the high claims and 

 merits we have represented, no apology is required for the attempt to 

 clothe it in a fitting garb. "We here present accordingly the numeration 

 table, as resulting from the names we have just above suggested : 



Numeration Table. 



It will be seen by this table that we have no peculiar word corre- 

 sponding to the "ten" of the denary scale ; and this is regarded as an 



