on the back, as on the forefide which is of great ufe in the 
cutting of their ftamps. Ancl thence they never write or 
print on both fides of the fame leaf but only on one^ and to 
make the leaf appear printed on both fides they double the 
fheet with the printed fides outwards, and putting the fol- 
ded part forward^ they fbw, bind cr ftich together, all theie 
ftieets by the cut edges, and upon whole flheets inftead of 
fingle leaves ; jufl: in the fame manner as the plate annexed 
to this difcourfe is printed. They begin the book on the 
top of the right hand fide of the page that is next the right 
hand, and they read downwards to the bottom, then begin 
the next line towards the left hand at the top, and {bread 
to the bottom, and fb proceed to the end of the book. But 
this I fiippole not to be the primitive or firft way of writing 
or reading. The Title of the Book is let firfl: upon a whole 
Leaf, ufually of a thicker Paper, and fbm-e Title is likev/ife 
written upon the folding or^^edge of every Sheet, where is 
let alio the Number of the Book, and the number of the 
Sheet, half of which appears on one fide^ and half on the 
other fide of the fold. . 
As to the CharaQer it felf, ( I find by all the books and 
writings I have yet met with of that kind ) that each of 
them is made up of a certain number of ftrokes, lines, or 
marks, which are very diftinct from each other in their 
iliape and pofition^ and by reaibn that thefe are fingle 
ftrokes, and as I conceive uncompounded, I think they 
may be qalled the Letters, Elements, or Particles, out of 
which the more compounded Characters are confl:ructed or 
contexcd. Thefe are the firft kind of which there are but 
a very few. And I think thofe I have defcribed in the i ith 
line of the Plate are all . 
Two, three, four, or more of thefe joy nd together in a 
certain order and contexture ( in the doing of which there 
is a great Regularity and order pbferved, which is not va- 
ryed from, and all within the regular fquare fj3ace) I con- 
ceive do make Syllables or Primitive Radical Characters, 
K ceah 
