i66 ESSAY TENDING to IMPROVE 



will be there feen that the firft 3 1 numbers of the table 

 may fignify the days of the month, the firft 12 the 

 I 2 months of tine year, and fuppoling the firft number 

 to indicate the prefent year, the others may follow in 

 courfe, either paft or future, as may be, indicated by 

 another figure. It appears therefore that our table may 

 be made to indicate many different things without the 

 leaft confufion. 



If it be defired to ufe any other article of the book, 75 

 may be added to the nuinbers ufed in the preceding ex- 

 ample, which would refer to another column, if imme- 

 diately afterwards you would exprefs yourfelf in detached 

 lyllables. 



Another Example. Suppofe I have occafion to ufe 

 this phrafe from the book No. 4. J^e partirai pons vous 

 aller voir. N. B. The firft following number will in- 

 dicate the day of the week, the next the hour, &c. which 

 phrafe I fliall find with the note annexed at No. 4. in that 

 book. I may then write as in example G. 



It may be alfo obferved that the 7 firft numbers of the 

 table will indicate the 7 days of the week, the firft 24 

 the hours from midnight to midnight. For inftance to 

 indicate 2. P. M. I would ufe No. 27. which would defig- 

 nate the 1 4th hour. 



This mode of writing may appear tedious, but befides 

 the confideration that pracStice facilitates every thing, your 

 correfpondent may have read half of your letter before 

 you have had time to finifti it, in cafe you write on de- 

 tached leaves, and tranfmit as faft as they are filled. 

 Your correfpondent may even read your letter at an ear- 

 lier moment than it is begun ; for if the fignals be fent 

 from eaft to weft their communication may outftrip the 

 velocity of the diurnal rotation of the globe. 



It is needlefs to add that by changing the order of the 

 fyllables, the communication may be kept fecret from all, 

 except the perfon who has notice of fuch change. 



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