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betical vocabularies of our language, omitting fynonymous terms, 

 and fuch as are not abfolutely neceiTary ; they (lould contain 

 the proper names of men that generally occur, the names of 

 contiguous and important places, and an appendix of fuch 

 phrafes and fentences as the correfpondents may expefl: to have 

 occafion for ; to the words of thefe vocabularies are to be an- 

 nexed in marginal columns the fingle letters, and the different 

 combinations which arife by joining any two, or any three 

 letters of the alphabet together, fo that every word and fentence 

 in the vocabulary may have a lign to reprefent it, confiding of 

 one, two or three letters at the moft ; the variety of combinations 

 thus produced by twenty-four letters (each combination con- 

 lifting of two or three letters only) far exceeds the number of 

 ufeful words, and affords figns fufficient for a very copious ad- 

 dition of fentences. 



When intelligence is to be conveyed, the lift of fentences 

 annexed to the vocabulary ftiould be examined for one adapted 

 to the occafion, and if any of them apply, the fymbolical letters 

 annexed thereto will denote it ; but if there be no fuch fentence 

 in the collection, the matter is to be put into the feweft words 

 which perfpicuity will allow, and the fymbols which reprefent 

 thefe words are to be fubftituted for them ; thus the fentence 

 may be expreffed by a fet of letters which feldom amount to 

 half the number neceiTary to fp'-'ll the words of it. AVhen 



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