C733 
Of this kind, luiiderftaad there are about 500. probably 
8x8x8. or 5^12. I could enumerate a great many, and give 
you alfb the name or words by which they are pronounced 
as alio their fignificationj but as I laid before firli^ Icon- 
c0ive the prelent Chinefe Lariguage to have no affinity at all 
with the Character, the true primitive, or firft Language^ 
or Pronounciation of it, haveing been loft. And fecondly, 
I want fbme further help to make a full and compieat 
Difcovery : what I have learnt from the Book of Fohi I 
fhall give the next opportunity \ which will explain the 
reafon of the multiplication of 8. and the order and method 
of places in the Letter or word Square. 
The third fort of Chatacters, is a decompounded fort be- 
ing made up of two three or more of thofc of the focond 
Mndy diminiflht prop6rtionably in the*ir fi2;e/ either as to 
their length, or bredth, or both, from w^hat they have in the 
fame Writing when they are fingle and fill up the whole 
Letter Square or Words Square. For there being fo veral of 
thern to be crouded together within the fame Square, accor- 
ding as thereare mofe irt number^ fo they are always more 
fqueezed together. In this Decompouud fort, there is a Re- 
gular order obferved in the placing of the foveral Characters 
of the Q.L fort ; there being fome that are always on the 
Left fide, fome alwayj» on the Right, fome at the top,^fome 
^ at the bottom. Of whichTPdotibt nc^ but that they have a 
certain Regular Method^ which- had We Dictionarys, ex- 
plained would be eafie enough to be Difcovered. 
This method alone of crouding together all the Charaft^ 
efrs ( how many foever go to inakdup the decompounded 
Ghara@teri) into one fquare/ which is of the fame fi2:;e for 
tte moft Simple antl for the rtioft Compound ) Teems to be 
the great Singularity, by which the Chinefe Charaders dif- 
fer from thofe of all the reft of the World. And this I con- 
ceive has beert the Reafon vfliy all People, and pollibly even 
the vtey C^/^g^ themfet^es^tevc, and do beleiVe^it to be'a^ 
R^atand not a Literal Charafter ; For if the Primitive Lan- 
K 2 guage, 
