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Proper names of men or women may, by a little ingenuity be recollected, by associating them with the symbols. An officer could soon conunit to memory the names of all his men; a number of words of a detached nature could also be assimilated.
It may be serviceable to give a few examples, to shew the manner of applying the system to pounds, shillings, and pence—as,
£32,695..9..3.
The word or words for the pounds, must be distinct from the word for shillings, as such word must be seperate from the pence. The consonants representing the above figures, stand as follow—m n d f l = f = m. These, by introducing vowels, can be easily made into a correct sentence, as, Mindful = of = me; and enumerating them in the order of pence, shillings, and pounds, the last word will be pence—the word immediately preceding it, will be shillings—and the word or words before them must be pounds. We may not always find it easy to make one word of the pounds, in which case we can make two or three if we please, but the fewer the better. The above figures, might be very differently worded; it would be equally correct to say—Gain a defile = of = me, or—Mind fool = a foe = I am, ог—I Mean a deep lie = if = I go. The last would be, in many instances, objectionable; for it is desirable, if it can be done easily, that when the pounds make more than one word, the last be not a word that has but one consonant in it, lest it should be in some sentences, confounded with the shillings, as in the following example—£9216..1..0. In the absence of pence there is no occasion for a word to characterize the cypher: we require words only for the pounds and shillings. The above figures will make a good combination, by saying
