, of the IfthmuC of America. f %f 



learn their Numbers, and 'twas a Diverfion 

 I had with them $ for they liked well my 

 trying to imitate them 5 and would be 

 very merry upon it : But 'twas not every 

 one could readily carry me much far- 

 ther than I have now reckoned, or fet me 

 right if I was out. 



Their way of Reckoning thus from Reck0r 

 Score to Score, is no mote than what our f ng by 

 old Englijl) way was : But there faying in- Scored 

 fteadof5i, 32. One Score and Eleven, 

 One Score and Twelve, is much like the 

 High-Landers of Scotland and Ireland , v 

 reckoning Eleven and Twenty, Twelve 

 and Twenty, &c. So for 53. the High- 

 Landers fay Thirteen and Twofcore, 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 Info Language § 

 both asfit is fpoken in the North of Ireland^ 

 particularly at the Navan upon the Boype 1 

 and about the Town of Virgini upon Lough 

 Rammer in the Barony of Cajile Raghen 0 in 

 the Gounty of Cavan 5 and alfo in the 

 High-Lands of Scotland^ where I have 

 been up and down in feveral Places. Then: 

 way of Reckoning may be a Cufiofity to 

 fome 5 for which Reafon I have here in- 

 ferted a Table of it • fpelt not according 

 to the Orthography, but the Prmttncidtion* 



