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the words ye, eye, aye, &c. If we add consonants, they are to be enumerated as units, tens, &c. from the right hand to the left. The word Yet is one million and—one You, one million and two—Younker, one million, two hundred and seventy-four, &c.; but its principal use, is to express million. Thus 3,000,000 is represented by either the words May or Gay, the M or G being 3, the y million. Day is 6 millions, Clay is 75 millions, Pulley 955 millions, &c.
Not to lose for general purposes, the services of the y; which would be be the case if always considered as a million, it may be used as a vowel in all the situations where it would be impossible that it should be mistaken for millions; thus the word Play in Geography, might be properly called 95 degrees of Longitude, as we could not say millions of degrees. In Chronology, the word Dismay, cannot be termed 603 millions of years. It only requires to be kept apart, for all those purposes where mistakes might occur, as in Revenue, Astronomy, &c. &c.
When the students are practised in the system of figures, they can make any modification of the consonants for particular purposes, that they may find requisite, but if introduced in the early part of their study, may confuse.
Thus the combination of the letters nt could be used to represent One hundred thousand. The words Ant or Aunt expressing them. When preceded by consonants, the rule applied to th and y will guide: Haunt will be Two hundred thousand—Lent 500,000—Bent, 800,000, &c—Where there are more consonants than one, before nt, their value will be understood by the common rules of enumeration: the word Flint will represent nine millions five hundred thousand:—for the letter l united to nt, being a character for 500,000, the next higher number must be millions.—Burnt is Eight millions four hundred thousand:
