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An 'Example of a Bi-literate Alphabet. 



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Neither is it a fmall matter thefe Cypher- Char aU^ers have, and may 

 perform ; For by this Art a way is opened, whereby a man may expreis 

 and figniffe the intentions of his mind, at any diftanceot place, by ob- 

 jects which may be prefented to the eye, and accommodated to the 

 ear; provided thofe objefts be capable of a two-fold difference only 5 

 as by Bells, by Trumpets, by Lights and Torches, by the Pveports of 

 Muskets, and any Inflruments of like nature. But to purfue our en- 

 terprife, when you addrefs your felf to write, refolve your inward- 

 infolded Letter into' this Bi-litcrary Alphabet. -Say the interionr Let' 

 ter be 





UKApiple ofSolittion, 



Together with this, you muft have ready at hand a Bi-formed Al^ 

 phabet, which may reprefent all the Letters of the Common Alphabet^ 



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