392 THE CENTURY, 



These varieties are shown in the annexed diagram 



t v w x y z 



where each is described three-fold, with a horizontal 

 line through the centre. Each figure thus affords three 

 varieties of size above, and three below the line, making 

 six figures each, or twenty-four in all, as curvilinear 

 signs for letters. These taken in rotation, may be 

 extended as above, or in any arbitrary order, and each 

 employed, as in short-hand, to signify letters, syllables, 

 or words. In practice it is only requisite to bear in 

 mind the three gradations of size, so as never to mis 

 take the middle semicircle for the outer ones. This is 

 to be avoided by invariably making the small figure as 

 small as possible, and the greater figure as large as space 

 will permit. 



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This invention refined, and fo 

 abreviated that a point onely fhew- 

 eth diftin&ly and fignificantly any 

 of the 24. letters ; and thefe very 

 points to be made with two pens, 

 fo that no time will be loft, but as 

 one finger rifeth the other may 

 make the following letter, never 

 clogging the memory with feveral 



