1-2 ESSAY TENDING to IMPROVE 



general way of ilgnalifing the columns, will do for the 

 fight, but there is another more expeditious way for the 

 hearing, which will not deprive the columns of the 

 No. 77. 



Example. Four flrokes or founds may be combined in 

 feven different ways. 



Firft column 



Seventh do. <-> " « " 



3. To correfpond by fight, a flag ©f two colours -will 

 anfwer in the day time, which may be fixed to a turning 



circle, the figures may be expref- 

 fed by kven different pofitions and 

 the eighth may ferve to fignalife 

 a repetition of the laft figure. At 

 night a light may be made to ap- 

 pear and difappear at unequal in- 

 tervals to defignate the longs — or 

 ~6^ briefs, o 



4. It is evident that, with the fame table, a like com- 

 jnunication of intelligence might be conveyed by the 

 touch, merely by taking hold of the hands; the table 

 being previoufly adapted to this purpofe, confcquently a 

 deaf, a blind or a dumb perfon might converfe with any 

 one who can read, provided he learns the table by heart. 



5. The two particular columns which are included in 

 the 7th column are to indicate numbers. Any number 

 of this column may ferve to indicate that all that follow 

 are to be coniidered as quantities inftead of fyllables, until 

 by a new fignal you are referred to fome other column ; 

 for inftance let 76 be the number. 



4 Example. 



