each of which have a' primitive fingle or diftinct notion or 
fignificationas woll as found, which is made much ufe of 
in the more compounded Characters or Words. Of this 
kind I take the Figures of the Numbers to be: Ifatleaft 
they are not fingle Letters like the way of exprefling Num. 
bers in the M4rem Greek Jrdkkj kc^Lzngu^gcs.ior t^^^ 
there may be two or three of the fingle llrokes joynd toge- 
ther into a cQropound Character, it hinders not, but that 
it may ftill fignifya Letter, as in the Gr^-^^ A.A.A.i.r.n.r. In 
the Runick ; where every Letter hath one upright line and 
Ibme other additional marks : InthQ Romm LL.F.E.O.Q^V". 
Y: Or it may fignify a Syllable as in the ^thiopick^ ^ViA in the 
Hmfcret^ and Languages. and Characters : Thefirft 
of which being the Bm)^;^^^;^j Character we find in P. Kjr. 
chers CUm llluflmdj deforibed by P. Kcth who ftudy^d it 7 
Years ; and the fecoad ( being aLiteral CharaSter ufed ovei' 
all IpMa by the Merchants ) I have feea in at Tranlcript; 
brought lately out of /Wi^by. a very Worthy Gentlemaii 
who lived there many Years, and had the curiofity to caufe 
to be tranfcribed and tranflated alfo into Englifh, A Diftio- 
nary of their Language in their own Xharafter: who ^ did 
me the favour to let me perufe it. . . L . : 
In which Characters or ways of Writing .a Vowel is al- 
ways joynd with a Confonant into one compound Character 
to make it effable. And then the fingle flroaks may be ta- 
ken for fingle Ineffable Letters as ai:e the Confonants^ and 
the Compofition of two or three/ ofwhidi JDne at leafl: may 
be a Vowel) will make Syllables. [mro'.; 
Of this kind, there are not fo many in the whole Chine fe 
Ch,ara£ter, but tliat it will be eafy enough to afligne each a 
proper Monafyllable v/hich fhall only have one or twoXon- 
Ibnants, and- one or two Vowels : That is the Confcnants 
together and notfoparate, either both behind the Vowel or 
Vowels, if it be a diphthong or both after it or them. 
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