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which was not more than 2 5 or 30 dayesjourny. This 
Map it feems muft be kept very Secret in Mafcovj : for the 
next day the Mufcovite was in difpair, for having given it, 
laying that if it fhould be known he fhould come to great 
Dammage. The OiBcer being come back fince into Frdnce^ 
has given a Copy to the King, and another to Monf 'teur Le 
Marquis de SeigneUy. To confirme this it may be added, 
what a fremh Man has writ from Mufcovy within this two 
Monthes, that they are adualiy Raifing Troops, to go to 
War with the Ci//Wy^. 
Some Obfowations ^ and ConjeSlures Concerning the 
Chmck CharaSiers. Made by R. H. K. 5. 6^, 
WHether there ever were any Language Natural, I 
difpute not: But that there have been^ are and may 
be artificial Languages 'tis nor difficult to prove. The Chi- 
nefe Gourt Language is faid to be of tliis kind, invented and 
Spoken by the Literati and Mandarins throughout the 
whole Empire oiChim^ differing from all the other Langu- 
ages fpoken in it, and I conjefture it to be nothing eis but 
the names of the Chara£ters by which they write and ex- 
prefs their meaning, Arbitrarily Impoled by them, as we 
in Europe let names to Arithmetical Figures, not as we pro- 
nounce words written with a Literal Charafter. This I 
Judge by comparing the Charafters with the Names, Mo» 
nofyllables or Words they Pronounce and Read them with. 
Nor do they afcend above a Monofyllabic^l Name the' the 
Charafter be compofed of many fingle Charafters, each of 
which hath its proper Senfe and Monafyllabical Name, And 
though the meaning ot each Character, be an ingredient in 
the Notion of that compounded Charafter. 
I might give an inftance alfo in the Artificial Languaj^e, 
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