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ture (in the doing of which there is a gfeat 

 Regularity and Order obferved , Which is 

 not varied from, and all within the regular 

 Iquare Space) I conceive do make Syllables 

 or primitive radical Charafters, each of which 

 have a primitive, fingle or diltinft Notion 

 or Signification as well as Sound, which is 

 made much ufe of in the more compounded 

 Gharaders or Words. Of this kind I take 

 the Figures of the Numbers to be : If at leaft 

 they are not fingle Letters like the way of 

 exprefling ' Numbers in the Hebrew^ Greek^ 

 Arabh\^ &c. Languages, for though there 

 may be two or three of the fingle ftrokes 

 joyned together into a compound Charader, 

 it hinders not, but that it may ftill fignify a ^ 

 Letter, as in the Greeks AA.A.i.r.n.r. in the 

 Runick ; where every Letter hath one up- 

 right Line and fome other additional Marks : 

 In^'the Romm I.L.F.E.O.Q^V.Y : Or it may 

 lignify a Syllable as in the <i/Ethiopicky and 

 in the Hanfcr^)^ and Sunfcrit Languages and 

 Charaders : The firft of which being the 

 £rackfnans Charader we find in P. Kircher\ 

 China Illuflrata^ defcribed by P. Roth who ftu- 

 died it feven Years ^ and the fecond (being 

 a literal Charader ufed over all India by 

 the Merchants) I have feen in a Tranfcript, 

 brought lately out of India by a very Wor- 

 thy Gentleman who liv^ed there many Years, 

 and had the Curiofity to caufe to be Tran- 

 fcribed and Tranilated alfo into Englifb, 

 a Didionary of their Language in their Own 

 Charader : who did me the favour to let 

 me perufe it. 



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