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may be made to the fame head without the trouble of reference to other' fo- 

 lios ; for which purpofes it is alfo advantageous to place the folio numbers 

 on the left pages only, leaving the right hand pages for a continuation of 

 the fubjefts entered on the left or for remarks thereon, until it become necef- 

 fary to appropriate them to new heads in order to fill the book. 



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To thefe remarks, which may appear more than adequate to the occafion, 

 it will be fuffieient to add, that, if the heads in the Index fwell,* under any 

 letter* beyond the dimenfions of the {ingle page affigned to them (which 

 however in a book of moderate fize is not probable) they may be continued 

 on a fecond page, to be prepared for the fame letter at the end of ^e origin 

 nal Index, for which purpofe ten or twelve blank leaves may be left be- 

 tween the Index and the commencement of the book ; and laftly, that, if the 

 entries in the book, under any head, fill more than the two pages firfl appro- 

 priated to it, the fame head may be continued in any fubfequent blank folio, 

 by obvious notes of reference at the foot of the former and top of the latter, 

 without any new entry in the Index, which would then be unneceflarily 

 filled. 



The AJiatick Society was inftituted for inquiring into the antiquities, 

 arts, fciences, and literature of Afia; and the humble plan of a Common- 

 place book cannpt claim admifiion among any one of thefe objecls x it may 

 however be confidered as connected with all, fince it may aflift inquiries 

 concerning the whole of them. If it be afked, whether fuch a plan be within 

 the local limits of this fociety, it may be anfwered, that it is in its nature 

 univcrfal; but if any particular plan be defigned in Afia, fuch plan may, with 

 propriety, be tendered to the AJiatick Society for the benefit either of pub- 

 lication in their Tranfaclions, if deemed worthy of it, or of fuppreiTion, for 



