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one could readily carry me much farther than I have 

 now reckoned, or fee me right if I was out. 



Their way of Reckoning thus from Score tOReckoa* 

 Score, is no more than what our old Englifh wayingby 

 was: But there faying inftead of 31, 32, One Scores * 

 Score and Eleven, One Score and Twelve, is much 

 like the High-landers of Scotland and Ireland, reck- 

 oning Eleven and Twenty, Twelve and Twenty, 

 &c. So for 53. the Highlanders fay Thirteen and 

 two Score, as the Darien Indians would, two Score 

 and Thirteen, only changing the Place. In my 

 Youth I was well acquainted with the High-Land, 

 or primitive Irijh Language ; both as it is fpokea 

 in the North of Ireland, particularly at the Navan 

 upon the Boyne, and about the Town of Virgini 

 upon Lough Ra?nmer in the Barony of Cafile Raghen, 

 in the County of Cavan and alfo in the High- 

 lands of Scotland, where I have been up and down 

 in feveral Places. Their way of Reckoning may 

 be a Curiofity to fome ; for which Reafon I have 

 here inferted a Table of it ; fpelt not according 

 to the Orthography, but the Pronunciation. 



1. Hean. 



Irijh and 



2. Dz. 



Scotch 



3. Tree. 



Highland- 

 ers Num- 



4. Caher. 



bers. 



5. Cooig. 





6. Shae. 





7. Shaucht. 





8. Oacht. 





9. Nnye. 





1 0. Deh. 





1 1 . Heanegg. 





12. Daeegg. 





13. Treedeegg. 





14. Caherdeegg. 





M c ootgdeegg. 



16. Shaedeegg, 



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