INTELLIGIBLE SIGNALS, &:c. 171 



Notes. 



1. Orthography is here out of the queftion, it is fiif- 

 ficient to be underftood. The reader will therefore pleafe 

 to fupply the letter y inftead of/, (the h is underftood) 

 the e mute alio as in fe, me, tie, which are marked f, ;;?, n^ 

 all double letters and thofe that do not found, alfo the / 

 and the r, at the end of fyllables as eigale_ annee and alfo 

 when one of thefe two letters follow a confonant as 

 vraijemblablement ; the fenfe of the phrafe will fufficiently 

 indicate the letters fuppreffed, which however, might be 

 marked by fignal if neceflary. 



2. To correfpond by hearing, fome fonorous inftru- 

 ment ihould be ufed, the figures may be expreffed by 

 founds or ftrokes in flow or iu quick fucceffion continued 

 or interrupted. 



1, by one long — 



2, by two longs 



3, by three longs 



4, by two briefs o u 



5, by one long and two briefs — 00 



6, by two briefs and one long u u — 



7, by three briefs, o o u 



The figures fhould be taken two and two to form the 

 numbers which indicate the fyllables, except the laft nn, 

 "which indicates the word colinnn in the table, and the 

 number of the column will be indicated by the very next 

 figure expreffed. txample : I hear three precipitate 

 founds, I tfien write 7 thefe are followed by three others, 

 I then recognize 77 or column, then inftead of writing 

 another 7 I place a point over the firft 7 to fignify column, 

 and I liften for the next fignal, if I hear three more precipi- 

 tate founds, 1 add 7 to the pointed 7, which I underftand 

 to be column 7, thus 77. Then I muft look into that co- 

 lumn for the fyllables of all fucceeding fignals. This 



general 



