The QuincHnx* 95 



phaticall decuflation, or fundamental! 

 figure. 



Now though in fome ancient and 

 modern pra&ice the area or decuflated 

 plot, might be a perfeft fquare, anfwer- 

 able to a Tufctn PecleflaS, and the <%nm- 

 quernio or Cinque-point of a dye $ where- . 

 10 by Diagonal! lines the interfeftion 

 was regular 5 accomodable unto Plan 

 tations of large growing Trees 5 and we 

 muftnot deny our fclves the advantage 

 of this order 5 yet (hall we chiefly in- .. 

 fift upon that of 8 Curtm and Pert*, in ^J| 

 Iheir brief description hereof. Wherein 

 the decnffis is made within a longilacerall 

 fquare 5 with oppofite angles, acute and 

 obtufe at the interfefticn 5 and fo upon 

 progreffion making a Rhombus or Lo 

 zenge figuration, which feemeth very 

 agreeable unto the Originall figure 5 An- 

 fwerable whereunto we obferve the de 

 cuflated characters b many confulary 

 Coynes, and even in thofe of Confttntinc 

 and his Sons, which pretend their pat* 

 tern in the Sky 5 the crucigerous En- 

 figne carried this figure, not tranfverly 

 or redangularly interfered , but in a 

 decuflationj after the form of an An 

 drew 



