[ 34-6 J 
Having taken in a Book that lay by me a Para* 
graph as clear of the principal Idea of the Book as 
J £§uld find, confifling qf near a thoufand Let- 
ters,"! enumerated the Repetitions of each of them, 
and wrote them down and thereby made the fol- 
lowing Table of the Number of Times each Letter 
was repeated in 1000. Tis true, it cannot be faid 
the Repetitions will be exactly the fame in every 
thoufand Letters that may be taken either in the 
fame Book or another; but whoever will enume- 
rate them will 'not find Difference enough to be of 
Confequence. 
' ; i The Table, 
I I £ k e :» 1 1 c r ' * 
d ° c d e f ig h i k l tn n o p 
8 1 2023 45 99 18 is 78 3 3 6 is 66 83 iz 
q t s t u w x y z. 
O 50 6195 30 2f o 23 ci. 
After having made this Table, I confider’d with 
myfelf, that there were in Nature no more than 
eight fimple Characters; four whereof are right, and 
the other four are crooked Lines. 
The four right Lines are firft the perpendicular 
Line I, and fecondly the Line of Level which 
make the two Sides of a Square. Secondly the ob- 
lique Line j afeending from the left to right, and 
the oblique Line V defeending from left to right, 
making the two Sides of the Rhomb ; which is the 
Figure of the Diamonds on the Cards. 
The four crooked Lines are only the Semicircle 
when the Diameter is either above or below it, or 
on the right or left Hand of it as, U O C J. 
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