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XXXIV. A simplified Method of marking Numbers on 

 Tallies. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Sir George 

 Steuart Mackenzie, Bart. F. H. S. 



Read January 1, 1828. 



My dear Sir, 



In the second volume of the Horticultural Transactions, 

 page 347, there is an ingenious scheme by Mr. Seton for 

 marking Tallies. I beg now to submit one which appears to 

 me more easily retained in the memory; and, on the whole, 

 to be more simple than any hitherto in use, as only four 

 signs are used in combination, to denote numbers up to 1000, 

 when one more sign carries us on to a million : beyond which, 

 I scarcely suppose it will ever be necessary to number. 



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