388 THE CENTURY, 



nefles, and the individual place 

 where anything was fealed, though 

 in ten thoufand feveral places, to 

 gether with the very number of 

 lines contained in a Contract, where 

 by falfification may be difcovered, 

 and manifeftly proved, being upon 

 good grounds fufpe6ted. 



Upon any of thefe Seals a man 

 may keep Accompts of Receipts 

 and difburfments from one Far 

 thing to an hundred millions, punc 

 tually fhewing each pound, {hilling, 

 peny or farthing. 



By thefe feals likewife any Letter, 

 though written but in Englifli, may 

 be read and underftood in eight 

 feveral languages, and in Englifli it 

 felf to clean contrary and different 

 fenfe, unknown to any but the 

 Correfpondent, and not to be read 

 or 4 underftood by him neither, if 

 opened before it arrive unto him ; 

 fo that neither Threats, nor hopes 

 of Reward, can make him reveal 

 the fecret, the Letter having been 

 intercepted, and firft opened by the 

 Enemy. 



4 nor to be. 



