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other Reading ; and if it be a Copy, that it has 
been taken with Exa&nels. 
In Tab. II. Fig. i contains the fever al diffe- 
rent Char aliens and Figures refer'd to in the 
Remarks, together with the modern Indian and 
European Figures. 
Fig. a is the Helmdon Date. 
Fig. 3 is the Colchefter Date. 
III. Some Confederations on the Antiquity and 
life of the Indian Characters or Figures. 
By Mr. John Cope. 
T H E moil ingenious Invention of Figures by 
the iagacious Indians , is of fuch vaft impor- 
tance in Numbering, that it can never be fufficieut- 
ly enough admired, although now-a-days the Ufe 
of them is become i'o familiar among us, that very 
few confider what a Lofs the want of them would 
be to People of every Degree and Station in Life : 
For to confider only, that fuch a Number as not 
long before the Conqueft would take up a good 
Arithmetician whole Days to count by the literal 
Characters, is now by the Help of Figures com- 
monly exprefs’d by a Child in a few Minutes. This 
Confideration of the vaft Ufe of Figures, put the 
Learned Dr. Wallis, and others fince him, upon 
enquiring at what Time they were firft happily in- 
troduced into this Ifland. 
Dr. Wallis 
