318 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1748. 



of the inventor of a short-hand, to adjust agreeable to his own fancy: and the 

 same is true of the circular parts. Thus any one may perceive how far the fancy 

 of a short-hand maker is properly bounded or at liberty. 



He takes notice of one shortening rule; which is that of increasing the di- 

 mensions of a line, when the letter must be repeated successively: as in man, 

 rare, and the like cases. This is a good rule of Mr. Weston. 



^n alphabet according to the classes, 

 dt. Ir. mn. uw, csxz. hfp. cgkq. y. 

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A Practice on the Lords Prayer. 



Which being expressed in letters of the common alphabet, will certainly 

 convince the reader how easily a language may be read, though the vowels are 

 omitted, e. g. 



urj'tr tec rt n vn, llwd b ty nm, it/ kndm cm, ty wll bdnnrtstsnvn, gvstsdy ur dly brd, nd/rgv s ur dts, 

 a vifrgv ur dtrs, nd Id s nl nt tmpttn, bt dlvr sfrm vl,fr tn s t kndm, t pwr, nd t glry,fr vr nd vr, mn. 



The advantages of this short-hand in the state exhibited, when perfectly 

 learned, so as to be written readily, will appear to be, 1 . That, by suppression 

 of a e i o h, or t^Vo j oJ^y ttt of the time of writing ordinary long-hand is 

 necessary to write this. 2. That the simple strokes representing the consonants, 

 not taking up above half the time of writing the consonants themselves, only 

 half of tVj or -rg- of the time of any thing written in long-hand, is necessary 

 for writing this. 3. Right lines not taking up more than -i- of the time of de- 

 scription of crooked lines, as the diameter is ^ of the semiperiphery, it appears, 

 if only right lines were used, these -pV would be reduced to -^, by the subtrac- 

 tion of -^ of -jV- But, because the number of right lines, all things considered, 

 should not be reckoned but about double the number of crooked ones, only -§- of 

 -y-V can be taken from the -fi^; that is to say, the time taken up in writing this 

 hand will be -jSo — -jV = nV of the time taken up in writing of the common 

 long-hand, or less than the -^ of the time. 



jin Account of a Treatise by fVm. Broivnriog, M. D., F. R. S. intitled, " The 

 Art of making common Salt, as now practised in most Parts of the World', 

 with several Improvements proposed in that Art, for the Use of the British 

 Dominions." Abstracted by W. Watson, F.R.S. N° 487, p. 351. 



This work, in which the author has eminently distinguished himself both as a 

 chemist and a philosopher, consists of 295 pages, exclusive of the preface, and 



