TRACT OF MISCELLANIES. 



ON A GEOGRAPHICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



148. DESIDERATUM. The invention and adoption 

 of a New Geographical Nomenclature, of such a 

 nature that the name of every place shall include 

 the longitude and latitude of that place, and thus 

 the name of a place being given, we shall be able 

 to point out the position of that place upon the 

 map ; also the longitude and latitude of a place 

 being known, we shall be able to give its name. 

 In addition to this an adjunct would be required 

 to indicate the thing signified whether a town, a 

 lake, a mountain, an island, and so forth. With a 

 view to this, let the consonants of the alphabet be 

 employed one of the consonants to indicate that 

 the thing signified is a town, another consonant to 

 indicate that the thing signified is a lake, and so on; 

 and let the vowels be employed to represent magni- 

 tudes. Thus the first vowel of the alphabet an- 



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