C 3+8 ] 
Writing with Suppreflion of the Vowels hath 
been always admitted into fhort Hands of all forts, 
becaufe the Confonants are look'd upon as radical 
Letters, which indeed they ought to be. I fliail 
fupprefs h, as being not radical. 
AH fhort Hands are fubjed to Ambiguity; for 
there being but 8 Marks to reprefent 24 Letters; 
and thofe 8 being ufed for 8 of them in the Short 
Hand Alphabets, the other Letters mud be deferibed 
by Characters compounded of thefe 8. 
The ranging of the Letters into Clafles, as is 
done here, will hardly introduce a greater Ambi- 
guity than all fhort Hands are fubjed to. So that 
this Method cannot be reckoned more puzzling to 
a Reader than any of the reft. 
1. The Repetitions of d being 45, and of / 97, 
amount to 140, for the Repetition of this Clafs. 
2. The Repetitions of /, being 36, and r 70 
amount to 86, for the Repetition of this Clafs. 
3. The Repetitions of m> being 15, and n 66, 
Amount to 86, for the Repetition of the third Clafs. 
4. The Repetitions of u 9 being 70, and of w 
Ift give 75, for the Repetition of the fourth Clafs. 
5. The Repetitions of c , when of the Nature of 
S , being about half its Number in the Table, may 
be reckoned 10, thofe of s 61, thofe of x o, and 
thofe of z 1, give 72, for the Repetitions of the 
fifth. 
6 . The Repetitions of b , being 20, of f 1 8, and 
of p 12, give 70, for the Repetitions of the fath 
Clafs. 
