2 8z The Statural Hijlory 



account given by bimfclf in our EnglifiPbilofopbicalTranfaftions, 

 of July iS. 1670 b . 



1 8 1. 1 know that the Right Reverend Father in God John Wil- 

 kins, late Lord Bifhop of Chefter, hath alfo laid down the diftinft 

 manner of forming all founds in Speech, and fhewed in Sculpture 

 which letters are Labial, Lingual, Nafal,isec. and how the Epiglot- 

 tis, Larynx, A(pera Arteria, and Oefophagus, conduce to them. 

 Since him, in the Year 1669. the Reverend and Ingenious Wil- 

 liam Holder D.D. publifh'd an Effay of Inquiry into the Natural 

 Production of Letters, together with an Appendix to inftruft per- 

 fons deaf and dumb c . Yet whether either of thefe, with advan- 

 tage of what Dr. Wallis did before, have with more accuracy of 

 judgment performed the fame, I dare not by any means take up- 

 on me to determine. 



182. The fame Dr. Wallis hath alfo, with great fagacity, de- 

 ciphered many things written in Cypbers, of very intricate and 

 perplext contrivance, beyond what hath been known to have been, 

 done by any other, whereof there be Examples of many in a 

 MS. Book, of his, referved in the Archives of the Bodleyan Li- 

 brary. 



183. Add hereunto the ingenious Invention of a Vniverfal Cha- 

 racter, or Philcfophical Language, firft contrived here at Oxford by 

 Mr. George Valgar no Wl. A, who in the Year 1656. endeavoring 

 to improve the Art of Short-hand beyond what others had done, 

 by expreffingthe auxiliary Particles of the Englijb Language, by 

 diftinft points and places about the radical or integral words, after 

 the manner that 'tis done by prefixes and fuffixes in the Hebrew ; 

 found at laft that there was no way to diftinguilh the affixed points 

 which he intended to be ufed really, from thofe ufed before in the 

 common way of Short-band (where not only the Capital Chara- 

 cter, bwtpoints about it were Alphabetical^) but by making theprin- 

 cipal Char after it felf, to which they were to be acceffary, not Al- 

 phabetical but real. 



1 84. Thus having formed Tables both of Integrals and Parti- 

 cles, tobeexpreffedby fingle Characters, he perceived at length, 

 that he was gone unawares further than ever he intended, having 

 not only improved the Art of Short-hand, but alfo difcovered a 

 real Character equally applicable to all Languages : And after he 



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