28 Ephemeris of the newly-discovered Planets 
purpose]: there shall result from this a 
number equal to ta oi 
To which add the lines formed z7 air, by 274: ; 
lifting the hand between each word ... ae 
Add also the supposed number of vowels” 
(including A and I when necessary) which \ _ 350 
cannot, without too much risk of illegibi- ( v7 
lity, be dispensed with ..) .. ca. 2. 
And add likewise ; loss by lifting id, 3350 
hand zz air to form those vowels Aig 
Total = 13069 right lines, 
9627 right lines. 
ee P 
fe 
~~ 
t 
or, in round numbers, 13,000. ~ 
Now, if in writing a number =13,090 right lines, the let- 
ter L, as an incipient, shall oecur but 77 times, producing a loss 
= 115 right lines; the aggregated loss is evidently but the 113th 
part of the whole, or very nearly equal to half a minute in an 
hour. 
Pursuing the same mode of calculation, incipient K, too, if 
expressed by G> in place of \, will yield a loss of almost ex- 
actly one minute in an hour ;—and this sacrifice, as well as that 
arising from the looped L (supposing even the aggregate loss in- 
creased by one-halfyin consequence of the disadvantage of these 
characters when intermediate or final), I shall make to a cer- 
tain extent® in the formation of my alphabet. 
[To he continued. ] 
* The plan of prepositives which I mean, by and by, to suggest, will 
almost wholly remove the incipient disadvantage, 
V. Ephemeris of the newly-discovered Planets for their several 
Oppositions in 1822: calculated by S. GroomsripcE, Esq. 
F.R.S., and presented by him to the Astronomical Society 
of London. 
Patuas and Cres being near the aphelion, it is doubtful 
whether they will be visible at the opposition; particularly the 
former, by reason of the great excentricity of its orbit. It was 
therefore unnecessary to compute their places to the stationary 
points. The orbit of Vesta having been found from later obser- 
vations less than heretofore computed, the mean longitude in 
the tables of Mr. P. Daussy (published in the Connaissance des 
Tems 1820) has become nearly 20 minutes in arrear. 
a VESTA. 
