666; and if it will NOT produce the precise Number by the individual Letters of his Name, it must be rejected as insufficient, and this is the simple process to which EVERY NAME must FIRST be subjected. But to introduce an episèmon or cypher as the representative of two distinct Letters in a Man's name, is to produce an Hiatus or Vacuum in the LETTERS OF THE NAME, and thereby destroy the validity both of the name and the number of the Man. It is most curious that out of the two Greek Letters XE and the ONE episèmon s', xks', Mr. Faber should have chosen to convert only the episèmon or cypher

into two Letters and then leave the Two

genuine LETTERS x to shift for themselves, as though the episèmon or cypher s' had more to do with establishing the authenticity of the name of the Man, than the regular Greek Letters, which compose his name, and this directly at variance with the established rules of Greek orthography and numerical calculations. It is evident therefore that we must, in the first instance, have recourse to the 24 Letters of the Greek Alphabet, and to them only; for the Name of the Man must contain the LETTERS of his Name, and those Letters the NUMBER of his Name (whatever that Name may be) in the same legitimate Mode of Calculation as exhibited by IRENEUS, of which he has given us Three Examples, and to do otherwise is to act in opposition to his high authority and every other Greek precedent. If however it were merely an arbitrary number UNCONNECTED with the NAME OF A MAN, &c. then we might exercise the

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discretionary power of using freely and unrestrictedly the THREE einua in conjunction with the 24 Letters of the Greek Alphabet, the former of which are merely introduced to make up Units, Tens, and Hundreds. I have already shown that there are three different ways in which to denote the Number 6.

First, by means of the cypher, called by Grammarians επισημον Ταυ, οι ς'.

Secondly, by means of the monosyllable e§.

Thirdly, by means of the Letters-aé, or vý, or es, any two of which may be used in the names of Men, &c. to denote six.

What then can be clearer, more intelligible, and satisfactory? And yet Mr. Faber is not content to go on in the straight road of Greek orthography, but prefers rather to plunge into a labyrinth of obscurity into which no one can safely follow him.

CHAPTER VIII.

CONTAINING ALLUSIONS TO THE ANCIENT NUMERICAL USE OF THE DI-GAMMA AS CONNECTED WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE EPISÈMON s'.

IF Mr. Faber had discovered the Name of a Man, in which there were TWO GAMMAS, yy, or y♫, and had then resorted to the expedient of using the A-yaμμa F, for the said two single gammas, there might have been something plausible in the argument, because the ancient Di-gamma was formerly put in the sixth place among the regular Greek Letters, and had the power of six in calculating numbers; but to attempt the admission of two dissimilar Letters (sigma and tau, s or 7) in lieu of it, is so foreign to the purpose, that if we were to try the proof we must in the end acknowledge that 6 is equal to 500, and 6,000 equal to 500,000. It must be admitted then, that if this Episèmon s' be any thing beyond a Cypher, it must be some one stenographical form of the ancient

Æolic Di-gamma; and this admission would put an end to Mr. Faber's argument, which, by his own confession, rests upon supposition, or doubt, or rather the Doctrine of Chances.' If the ancient Di-gamma were revived according to its primitive form, place, and use, it would be numerically equal to six, but could not make the two Letters σ and 7, contractedly, or uncontractedly, because double gamma, as F, or two gammas, as, y, yy, &c. would never denotes or 7: but the Letters σ and Tare positively and undeniably equal to the Greek contractions because the contraction contains the Letters σ and 7,—and, as Letters which are equal to the same Letters are equal to one another, both in numbers and in every other reference; by the same rule of argument, contractions which are equal to the same contractions are also equal to one another. But the numerical μ or cyphers' being no letter, nor Letters, nor the regular contraction of Letters, can neither be equal to the contraction 5 nor its representative Letters; for were it otherwise, the episèmons having been once acknowledged as the stenographical ligature of and would imme

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diately cease to be a cypher by becoming a contraction, (as may be seen by considering its common appellation, position, and numerical use,) and consequently must cease to be employed for the Number 6. But I have already shown that the episèmon or cypher is not only used for the Number 6, but that the same episèmon (with the Mark below) 5 is also used to denote 6,000: what then is the use of

insisting on the similarity of the episèmon to the contraction 5, but to confound the two characters by endeavouring to produce a belief that they Are, or may be used as synonymous terms or characters? Much in the same manner as we are told that Blasphemy DENOTES Apostacy.' Whereas, by retaining the ancient individual use of the 24 Letters of the Greek alphabet, with their several numerical values attached to each letter, there can be no possible mistake concerning the number of the name of any Man!! As we find the place of the our Fav or cypher to be between e and %, and NOT between ρ and v, in the Table of Greek Contractions; so we may fairly conclude that it is an arbitrary character, just as easily as we can that the TWO EPISEMA KOTTO and av are arbitrary characters, because they are neither of them to be found among the CONTRACTIONS or LETTERS.

If we permit the eμ Fav, or cypher s', or 9, to pass current in orthography for the well known contraction of σ and 7, or 5, we must in reason admit the other two cyphers, Kona, T, S, or 4', and Zavi,, to an equal rank and numerical value among the LETTERS, So that they also may assume the specific Form and Power of certain known Letters in the Greek Alphabet, which is too preposterous to admit; for, as I have already shewn, they are both of them supplementary to the 24 Letters, and resemble none of the regular Greek contractions of. LETTERS, but are placed in the three Ranks of numerals,-ex-alphabetically; therefore to attempt.