1 64 ESSAY TENDING to IMPROVE 



At the next ftation the operator mud exadly anfwer 

 every fignal by repeating it, in cafe there are more 

 ftations than one; If the next ilation be the laft, one 

 fignal will do, after having written the longs ( — ), and 

 briefs ( ^ ), as in column C. 



2. The diredtor of the correfponding poft will tranf- 

 iate thefe figns back again into numbers, and fend them 

 to their addrefs in the form of column B. 



3. The correfpondent will confult his table and join 

 the fyllables to the numbers received, fupplying thole 

 that by agreement may be fupprefled or abiidged, fee 

 column A. 



I cannot avoid obferving that in fpite of my endea- 

 vours the number of iignals (6 1 ) exceeds the number of 

 letters in the phrafe (57), by 4, but it will be feen that 

 1 have left a number of figures without correfponding 

 letters, which might have affifted me ; and in this phrafe 

 I have not been favoured by the chance of finding many 

 fyllables in the fame column, which would have faved 

 the repetition of column numbers. Befides this, I pre- 

 fume the conftraint I have laid upon myfelf, by uling 

 only four flrokes of one inflrument for facilitating and 

 infuring the fuccefs of the enterprize, will merit fome 

 indulgence. 



Be this as it may, I imagine that in the courfe of prac- 

 tice the number of fignals may be diminifhed, either by 

 reducing the number of columns in the table, or by placing 

 feveral fyllables to the fame figure, the fenfe of which 

 may be determined by the choice of them. Without 

 having recourfe to all thefe expedients, let us try another 

 example to obtain the fame end. 



^elle plus etroite obligation que celle de nous fecourir 

 mutuellemejit f 



[ begin by fuppreffing all letters, and even words that 



maybe readily fupplied, and reduce the phrafe to this — 



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