28z The Natural H'tjlory 
account given by himfelf in our EnglipThilofo^hkalTranfa^ions^ 
of 7«/ji8. 1670 \ 
1 8 1 . 1 know that the Right Reverend Father in God John WiU 
kins^ late Lord Bidiop of Ckefter^ hath alfo laid down the diftind 
manner of forming all founds in Speech^ and fliewed in Sculpture 
which letters zre Labial^ Lingual^ I^afal^iyc. and how the Epiglot^ 
/ij, Larynx^ Affera Arteria^ and Oefophagu^^ conduce to them. 
Since bim^ in the Year 1609. the Reverend and Ingenious Ml- 
Ham Holder D.D. publifli'd an Ejjay of Inquiry into the Natural 
Produdion of Letters^ together with an Appendix to inftrud per- 
fons deaf and dumb Yet whether either of thefe, with advan- 
tage of what Dr. ?F^//i5 did before, have with more accuracy of 
judgment performed the fame, I dare not by any means take up- 
on me to determine. 
. 182. The fame Dr. JFallli hath alfo, with great fagacity, de- 
ciphered many things written in Cyphers, of very intricate and 
perplext contrivance, beyond what hath been known to have been, 
done by any other, whereof there be Examples of many in a 
MS. Book, of his, referved in the Archives of the Bodleyan Li- 
hrary. 
183. Add hereunto the ingenious Invention of zVniverfal Cha^ 
raSIer^ or Fhilcfophical Language, firfl contrived here at (^x/or^/ by 
Mr. George Dalgarno M. A, who in the Year 16^6, endeavoring 
to improve the Art of Short-hand beyond what others had done, 
by expreffing the auxiliary Particles of the Englijh Language, by , 
diflinft/oi/?/j- and //df^fy about the radical or integral words, after 
the manner that 'tis done by prefixes and fuffixes in the Rebrew ; 
found atlaft that there was no way to diftinguifh the affixedpoints 
which he intended to be ufed really ^ from thofe ufed before in the 
common way of Short-hand (where not only the Capital Chara- 
6ier^ hulpoints about it were Alphabetical^ but by making theprin- 
cipalChara^er it felf, to which they were to be acceffary, not Al- 
phabetical but real. 
1 84. Thus having formed Tables both of Integrals and Parti- 
cles, to be expvG&d by fmgle Characters , he perceived at length, 
that he was gone unawares further than ever he intended, having 
not only improved the Art of Short-hand, but alfo difcovered a 
real CharaSier equally applicable to all Languages : And after he 
• PhiIofoph.Tranladt.to^.(Ji. * Philofoph.Tranfadt.N^w^. 47. 
had 
