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THREE SCHEMES /or CONVEYING INTELLIGENCE 

 to GREAT DISTANCES by SIGNALS. By JOHN 

 COOKE, Efq; M. R. I. J. 



X H E great expedition with which the French Telegraph Read Dec. 

 tranfmits difpatches has excited a confiderable degree of pubHc ' '^^^ 

 attention ; its ufe in war is manifeft, and 'tis probable that it 

 may be applied to commercial purpofes with equal fuccefs. 

 While the knowledge of this invention remains confined to any 

 nation it muft be attended with advantages inconfiftent with 

 the interefts of other countries, and therefore an attempt to dif^ 

 cover the principles of it, or to fupply new methods of elFedling 

 the fame end, is capable of confequences beyond the mere gra- 

 tification of cviriofity. 



The firft ftep neceflary in the following plans is to exprefs 

 words by the fmallefl poffible number of chara<5lers ; for this 

 purpofe let the correfpondents be furnilhed with fimilar alpha- 

 betical 



