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The crooked Lines can likewife be varied fourteen 
different ways : viz. 
12 3 4 f 67 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 
n ) r 
In fine, the two Points admit twelve Variations : 
But as the ancient Sueo-Gothi had but fixteen Letters 
in their Alphabet, they did not want all thefe Vari- 
ations of the Wedges, Lines, and Points : Wherefore 
they employed fix Variations of the Wedges 5 of the 
ftrait Lines, five, of the crooked, three $ and but two 
of the Points. 
If we now fuppofe thefe Helfingic Characters to 
be older than the common Runics y the greateft Part 
of the common Runics can eafily be derived from the 
Helfingics , by adding a perpendicular Line to the 
fmall Wedges and Curves $ as appears by the follow- 
ing Examples : 
Thofe of 
Heljingland. 
Common Runics . 
VO RKNIATBL 
h iv 
v b' l 
k 
i ■ 
A 
* 
~7 
> 1* 
f 
TTfTR Pi 
L 
\ 
□ 
□ 
H 
But if we fuppofe the common Runics to be older, 
and to be derived, as it is very probable, from the 
ancient 
