436 THE CENTURY, 



. - ; 42. 



By the Touch. 



By thefe three Senfes as perfeUy, 

 diftinftly and unconfufedly, yea as 

 readily as by the fight. 



\_An alphabet ~by the Smell ; Taste ; Touch. ] 



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How to vary each of thefe, fo 

 that ten thoufand may know them, 

 and yet 6 keep the underftanding 

 part from any but their Correfpon- 

 dent. 



6 yet omitted. 



[A variation of all and each of these. ] We have 

 here ten Alphabets, concluding with a variation on 

 each, which, had it been given, would have at least 

 increased the number to twenty, but that was by no 

 means the limit. Cipher Alphabets are the least 

 interesting portion of the &quot; Century ;&quot; we imagine we 

 trace in them some of the Marquis s earliest studies, 

 and fancy that later in life they were retained from 

 fond recollections of the past. 



These secret methods of corresponding are no longer 

 of any service, and have no interest beyond what may 

 attach to them in connection with the history of short 

 hand writing, wherein the object is rather dispatch 

 than secrecy. Among early writers on the art of 

 Senigraphy, and Stenography, are Bright, 1588, Bales 

 1590, Arnold Bostius, Trithemius 1600, Willis 1618, 

 Dix 1633, Wilkins 1641, Cartwright 1652, Rich 1654, 



