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laron, having, with numerous other words, the fame initial letter and fuc- 

 ceeding vowel, feveral references to the pages pointed out by Mr. Locke's 

 numerical Index might be neceflary, before any one of them, in particular, 

 could be found j or before it could be- afcertained, whether any one of them 

 had been previoully entered in the Book. An Index, of which the following 

 is a fpecimen, would, it is prefumed, remedy thefe apparent difadvantages : 

 how far it is free from others, will be known from experience. 



A short explanation of the method adopted for this book will be fuf- 

 ficient. One and twenty pages, divided each into five columns, and fub- 

 divided in the feveral columns for the number of the folios, the letters of 

 the alphabet written at the head of each pag;e, and the five vowels inferred 

 in the columns under each letter, will form a fuffioient Index, provided the 

 letters' : J, Q^_,V, X, and Z, inftead of having diflinct. pages appropriated to 

 them,' be written in the ! fame pages' with I, P, U,. W, and' Y, which they 

 may be without inconvenience; 



-t 'The : : Tk b-zx, thus prepared, is ready to receive the headV of whatever 

 febje-Ss- maf'-Be entered in the book,, under their conefponding initial letters*' 

 and ; fallowing vowels, or under their initial letters' and limikrr vowels', when- 

 the^hea-d' is a monofylla-ble and* begins with a vowel : it is hardly necetTary 

 to repeat Mr. Locke 3 s remark, that " every head ought to be fome im- 

 4< portant and effential word or term." If a fmall margin be left in each 

 folio of the ooois, and the indicative word or head be written on it, it will! 

 be-'confpicuous, although' fevers! heads' ihould be included m the fame folio ■;. 

 but; until it become neceflary, from there being- 'no remaining folios wholly 

 blank;, It is advifable-to appropriate a feparate folio to each head, - as, by this. 

 means,, the feveral fubjeds entered are kept more diftinft,; and any addition*, 



