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Show [M.P.] A REFORMEDNIODE or SPELLIN‘ C. 467 [/1 m: for [I new Alphabet/17m] 7‘5/rm7716d male of a ~, {ail/2 Remarks mm] Examples [macaw/rm u; and an Enquiry into its Utes, iii a Col:- zm‘e [10. team 2111]} 8 71 (ml Dr. I'l‘lSII/Ch'fl, turtle/'1 m the C/Iruraéicit a} [1'5 Ago/await j * [I think itizrciier to mention that 1117/? 52,. 7:, is the lady that appears in Ctltitluctwtilly iii the Ctlitinn ol‘Dr. Franklin's pliilol npliteal papers: and that ifI am not inillnken, the name of a Sir ‘1 .7; Smll/J is referred to, in one of the copies which I have feen of A s Piper. liar ttn nature and intent ion oftliis alphabet, (\c I mull refer to what Dr, 1 ranklin l as ltlmlt'lf {aid upon the titl‘jeft, in anliter ‘to Mil:s 5-11 5 objections; .15 the reader may underl iand the whole m 11H hour or txxo.~lt is ntCL‘Illlly to add, that the new letters ufetl in the courle ot'printing this paper, are exat‘lly copied from the "mint/(r 1p in my polfeilicn ; there being no prmiiimi fur a dit'tinction in the charatler as written or [tilt/BM. I have no other way therefore. at marking the (cured parts of the mnniit eript (anfwering to flu/rm ) than by placing Inch paflhges between imert ed commas. -As to mpz'm/x, llltonltl liaiepmvidcd for-th em by means oflarger types. but the form ot-l'tniie of them would have made them too large "WWW" for the page: l1\.\VC\'Cl , were the author's genera l t'yllem everatlopte' , "-- nothing would be eatier than to remedy this particular. I hope I {hall be forgiven for olu'e ring, that even our‘fiH/Eflt printed and written Chflt‘ilfll‘l's are fundamentally the thine; The [Ronnn] pizza [1' one is certainly the neatetl, fimplcl i, and molt legible of the mo ; but for the lake 0me and rapidity in our qerifiqgr, it {Cents we there intert a number of joining or termin ating llrokes, fubllitute curves for angles, and give the letters a tinall inclination, to which rules even the letters a, g, r and «:u, are eaiily reconcile- ablC. 'l'liis will ceale to appear :1 remark of mere curiohty, it applied to the tlccyphering of foreign correfpondence. But for this Purpofe I would told, that the Frrnr/J in particular, fecni to_ treat the final! up-lh‘oke in the letters l], p, &c. as proceeding originally in an angle from the Ant/m oftlie down-lh‘olic: they therefore begin 1: with a curve from the bottom, and keep it all the u ay diflintt ;. hence forming their written r much like our written rv. .This lail lettcn-v, they again diningulfli by a loop at the bottom; which loop tliev often place where we place annutward curve. '1 he remarkable iel'll‘ti," ting .r Which they tinnetimcs Ufe, m ms intended for our printed r begun from the liottmn, but l'runi eon-e11 writinginverted antl put horizon~ tally, inl‘tuul ofyertieit '. it 13 mther from bad writing than r§*lleni, that their a and I»; appear like u and "(Ur-'1 could go on to {peak ol the fDrmation of Writilill «nil pri ‘d [(girrz/t, but as this would he :1. Work of mere curielity, l have it {or the reader's ainutcment. 0 o o 2 til |