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Book Five

Ch. 19.

Chapter XIX
On Mixed Inverted Transposition:
By the Varying Position, Character, and
Form of the Letters.

Such is the Simple Transposition and the Artificial Transposition of this class.  We come now to Mixed Transposition, in which the method of making Transposition is simple, and yet, by an artificial arrangement of the table, one Transpositive letter only is to be set down, or written.  This process takes place in three ways:  by variation in the way of writing the letters, or by limitation of the writing by numbers, or by apposition of small notes by the side of the writing.  Whence arise, once more, three Modes of this Transposition.

The first Mode, whereof the principle is variation in the way of writing the letters, is again affected by varying Position, by variation of different characters, and by Form, and is thereby declared.  Varying Position of letters, traces of which may be found in the expression of the various Modes of writing treated by Herman Hugo, De Prim, Scrib. Orig.. c. 8 is shown in the following table, constructed by myself:

 

There is no need here of an explanation, no need of  guidance to the praxis: the matter is clear from the explanation of the previous methods.