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keep his Court there, unlefs it was in fome Part of 
that Year in which - we fuppofe it to be finifhed. 
I fhali next mention fome Obfervations upon the 
different Shape the Figures have been altered to 
fince their coming into thefe Weftern Parts j for our 
Anceftors wrote them different from the Indians , 
and we again make fome of them different from 
what our Anceftors did, as by the following Table 
will appear. See Tab, I. Fig. 3. 
In this Table the Left-hand Column contains the 
Indian Characters j the Middle thofe ufed by our 
Fore fathers, as appears by old Weftern Manufcripts ; 
the Third are the Characters we now ufe. 
We may now obferve that the Figure 1, is the 
fame as the Indian ; the Figures ^ and 3, are the 
fame with the Indian, only placed in a different 
Pofition, for the fake of writing them more readily, 
for only the Dalh from the Indian 3 is taken away ; 
they are only, as we may fay, both fet upright. So 
the Character of the Indians is much the lame 
with ours, only we clofe the Head, and fet it up- 
right, thus 4. Again, our Anceftors transferr’d the 
Figure -£) (5) from the Place of y, to that of 8, and 
With very little Alteration is our 8 made from it. 
As the Figure Five was moved into the Place of 
Eight, .fo the old Eight \ 7 was moved into the Place 
of Seven, the firft of thele is the 7 of our An- 
ceftors, the laft 7 is our own ; and as they put the 
Five for an Eight, they put the fix 1/ into the Place 
of five ; which tj was at length altered toj^ t and 
laft of all to y. The two Characters 9 and o are 
without any Alteration, except that our Anceftors 
ftruck a Line crofs the Cypher, as thus -©-, which 
we 
