done one Man alone will print off 1,500 Sheets in one day. 
And tliough tis generally believed to be much the fame with' 
our Wooden Cuts for Printing, yet from fome Oblervations 
^ I have made, I believe it to be much another way ; of which 
I fhall hereafter fay more when I difcribe their other Arts 
of Pottery, Staining, Vernifliing, &:c. 
- By 2i Cbmefe Manufcript, out of which I tranfcribed the 
Lords Prayer in the Year 1666 ( when it was loft j Ifound 
that the Pronuntiations liad no Affinity with the ftroaks of 
the Character. Whence I conceived it was either a numeral 
Character confifting of Number's, or elfe a real Charafter, 
but not a Literal, unlefs it were a Litteral Charafter of fome 
other Language than thatby which it was Pronounced, 
whofe pronountiation is loft though the Significancy be re- 
teined, as if one fhould Read what is written in HebrenHifim 
\ T\^l)):k'l'2into Latine or Language, In frimipo 
•^-^ C reavit in&Qad of Brafa hra.or Berefith Bara according to 
xhQ Maforeth^. 
Since that time I procured from China a Dictionary of the 
Court Language, ( as I found it writen upon by the pertbn 
that fent it me from thence) But this whole.Book ( which 
I found was Printed ) confifted only of the Chine fe Charafters 
without any interpretation,or Pronuntiation.however by the 
help of the pifturs of that, and a Chine fe Almanack, I quick- 
ly found out their Charafters for numbers and their way of 
Numeration, together with the Figure and ule of their v^- 
hams ox counting Board, for performing the Operations of 
Arithmetick, which I find pretty near to agree with that of 
the Antient Romms ( A Defeription and Figure of which 
is given by Pigmrim 2indi' Velferu/^ 
that, inftead of pinns and Aiding Groves ;of the Rdmdn/y t}A 
Chine fe Abacus hath Strings or Wires and Beads, to flide up- 
on them ; and that, inftead of four pinns for Digits or Unites, 
the Chine fe hath 5 beades : So that it may leem tP argue 
that the Chine fe abacus was defigned for a Duodecimal Progre- 
ffion : Whereas that of the Romans W2iS defigned for tile De- 
cimaL 
