General Meeting, May 1 5th, 1852. 



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therefore inclined to believe it to have been the seal of office borne by 

 Theros. 



Secondly,— To ascertain whether any score or tally is kept by the 

 Kandyans or Singhalese, or by the troops, — Malays, Africans, or Arabs, 

 &c, or in the Shipping which frequent the Ports of Colombo, Galle and 



Trincomalie, of this kind ^^j^ or " 4 perpendicular right lines cut by 



an oblique diagonal, the 4 right lines being each one, and the diagonal 

 also one." I have traced, with the assistance of numerous correspondents, 

 modifications of this principle, viz : 



n m m wm mm 



3 5 6 8 10 



Numer- Potatoes, corn, Peat turf, 

 als. butchers. per 100. 



) At 



V Bath 

 \ alone, 



Scotland. Navies on Kailroad. 



10 10 



5 5=10 20. &c— -&c. 



I have found it among the most illiterate of Irish, from thence across 

 England to Norway, and thence to Scandinavia, to M. N.* To the East 

 I have found it to exist in France, Central Germany, Italy, and Genoa. 

 And I am particularly anxious that this enquiry shall be carried on 

 in the East, particularly in the neighbourhood of the hills in Kandy, of 

 the Nilgherries, and the country about the Himalayahs. I make this 

 enquiry, because I hope to shew that the Cadmean Alphabet was de- 

 rived from these numerals— the scale of Nature herself — the hands 



• The nearest approach to MS., Pbinteb, 



