_Diminishing_ Glasses, be made vanish into a scarce visible Speck, or Point (as I have often try’d on the _Moon_, and (when not too bright) on the _Sun_ it self.) So, could a Mechanical contrivance succesfully answer our _Theory_, we might see the least spot as big as the Earth it self; and Discover, as _Des Cartes_[2] also conjectures, as great a variety of bodies in the _Moon_, or _Planets_, as in the _Earth_. But leaving these Discoveries to future Industries, we shall proceed to add one Observation more of a _point_ commonly so call’d, that is, the mark of a _full stop_, or _period_. And for this purpose I observed many both _printed_ ones and _written_; and among multitudes I found _few_ of them more _round_ or _regular_ then this which I have delineated in the third figure of the second Scheme, but _very many_ abundantly _more disfigur’d_; and for the most part if they seem’d equally round to the eye, I found those points that had been made by a _Copper-plate_, and Roll-press, to be as misshapen as those which had been made with _Types_, the most curious and smothly _engraven strokes_ and _points_, looking but as so many _furrows_ and _holes_, and their _printed impressions_, but like _smutty daubings_ on a matt or uneven floor with a blunt extinguisht brand or stick’s end. And as for _points_ made with a _pen_ they were much _more ragged_ and _deformed_. Nay, having view’d certain pieces of exceeding curious writing of the kind (one of which in the bredth of a _two-pence_ compris’d _the Lords prayer, the Apostles Creed, the ten Commandments, and about half a dozen verses besides of the Bible_, whose _lines_ were _so small_ and _near together_, that I was unable to _number_ them with my _naked eye_,) a very ordinary _Microscope_, I had then about me, inabled me to see that what the Writer of it had asserted was _true_, but withall discover’d of what pitifull _bungling scribbles_ and _scrawls_ it was compos’d, _Arabian_ and _China characters_ being almost as well shap’d, yet thus much I must say for the Man, that it was for the most part _legible_ enough, though in some places there wanted a good _fantsy_ well _preposest_ to help one through. If this manner _of small writing_ were made _easie_ and _practicable_ (and I think I know such a one, but have never yet made tryal of it, whereby one might be inabled to write _a great deale_ with _much ease_, and _accurately_ enough in a very _little roome_) it might be of very good use to convey _secret Intelligence_ without any danger of _Discovery_ or _mistrusting_. But to come again to the point. The _Irregularities_ of it are caused by three or four _coadjutors_, one of which is, the _uneven surface_ of the _paper_, which at best appears no smother then a very course piece of _shag’d cloth_, next the _irregularity of the Type_ or _Ingraving_, and a third is the _rough Daubing_ of the _Printing-Ink_ that lies upon the instrument that makes the impression, to