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quence is, that one Chara&er mud ferve for one, 
two, three, or four Letters ; as their Frequency of 
Occurrence, or Affinity to each other, fhall fugged. 
4. From thefe Suppofttions, amongd a Variety 
of Alphabets that would equally anfwer his Inten- 
tion, refults the following, which (omitting, as need- 
lcfs, the Letters a , e , /, 0 , h) he propofes for the 
Plan of a perfect Short- Hand j and computes, with 
great Exa&nefs, that it may be written in lefs than 
one Quarter of the Time that common Long-Hand 
will require. 
The Alphabet . 
/ — \ 1 c y n u ! 
dt. Ir. mn. uw * csxz. bfp. cgkq. y 
This, Sir, with a Specimen of the Lord s Prayer, 
as written in it, is the Whole of his Plan j which, 
as far as it goes, might have a plaufible Appearance 
to a Gentleman, at the fird.Turn of his Thought 
towards Short-Hand 5 but a little practical Attention: 
mud have fhown him how liable it was to the very 
Objection that he intended to remedy, viz. Am- 
biguity* 
The fil'd Mark, for indance (L), in this ffiort Speci- 
men, dands for thefe 4 feveral Words which occur 
in it, viz. our , will , evil , ever s and forty more 
that one might enumerate, mud, whenever they 
occur, be reprefented by it 5 not to mention how 
often it mud occafion Ambiguity in the Beginning,, 
Middle, or End of a longer Word, or Marks, 
whereof it is a condiment Part only. 
Now, though in the Lord’s Prayer it is eafy, or 
in cafual Writing one of his Learning and Saga- 
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