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Stroke*, {landing perpendicular to the parallel Lines, 
fignifies I, F, D and S. For when it joins thefe Pa- 
rallels, it fignifies 1 5 when it refts on the lower Pa- 
rallel, it fignifies F ; on the upper, S j and D, when 
it touches neither of them. The fmall Wedge lean- 
ing to the Right, and placed near the upper Parallel, 
denotes L j in the middle, N ; and O, near the lower. 
A Line defeending from the upper Parallel, and 
making a Curve downward to the left, (lands for K j 
the fame placed contrary wife, from the lower Pa- 
rallel upward, exprefies R : and fo of the reft. 
The Intention of the firft Inventor of thefe Letters 
feems to have been, to form all the Charafters of 
fmall Wedges, ftrait and crooked Lines, and two 
Points, varioufly placed between the two Parallels. 
For the Wedges may be placed fifteen different ways : 
Ex. gr. 
123 4 5 6 78 9 
10 1 1 12 13 : 
14 If 
Y- A. >> 
T r V 
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The ftrait Line may alfo have fifteen different Situ- 
ations, viz. 
1234 7 6 789 
16 II 12 13 14 If 
] T? N 
— _ 
V. 
B 
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