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II. A Letter from John Byrom M \ A. 
F. R. S . to the President, containing feme 
Remarks o?i Mr. JeakeV Plan for Short- 
Hand. 
Honoured Sir , 
Read June 23. A S it has been fuggefted to me, that I 
I748 * JLjl Should take fome notice of the 
Plan for a Short-Hand by S. Jeake Efquire, which 
was lately * read before us at the Royal Society , I 
take the Liberty of addrefling to you the following 
Remarks upon it 5 being obliged to thank you for 
the public Teflimony which you were pleas’d to 
give, on that Occaflon, in favour of the Method 
which I had the Pleafure of communicating to you ; 
and which, in your Judgment, confirm’d by the 
Experience of many other Gentlemen who have 
learn’d- it, appears lufficicntly to be perfeded to 
Demonftration. 
In the Paper read before us it is inferr’d from the 
continual Succeflion of new Short-Hands, that none 
of them were conftrudcd upon right Principles, 
which, in the Opinion of the Propofer of this Plan, 
are briefly thefe ; 
1. There are in Nature but 8 Ample Charaders, 
viz. 4 redilinear ones, (I — A b ) and 4 crooked 
or femicircular ( n ^ 3 C )• 
2. To avoid the Ambiguity and Confufion that 
muft arife from the Ufe of compound Charaders, 
a perfed Short-Hand fhould confifl: of thefe 8 Ample 
ones only. 
3. But whereas there arc 3 times as many Letters 
(or more) in the common Alphabet, the Confe- 
quence 
* See Phil, Tranf. a, 487. p. 345* 
