2. Seeing We have entered a discourse of these Ancient and Forraine Characters, It may not be amiss, and hope not troublesome to the Courteous Reader to take a short view of some other National, Provinciall, and Monarchicall Letters, used in the severall parts of this Sublunary Globe of the Earth: Such Letters I meane whose forms and shapes are contrary to the Romans Greeks and Hebrews. And as in letters, so they differ in their Names, Pronunciations, Vowels, Dipthongs, and Abbreviations. As the Instructions following will make more manifest.
Now for the better findeing out of these following Characters according to their names, I have in the first Columb set the figure against it in the engraven Plate, from which stricking over into the said Letter Columb aftermentioned, you will there se the Character which is here so named, of such or such a people.
[Texts not transcribed. The figures refer to a tipped-in plate not included here.]
Ancient British alphabet
Image from proof plateUntranscribed item(s) Goth's letters; Celts' and Normans' letters; Frank letters; Irish and monks letters; Phoenician letters; Egyptian letters; Turkish letters; Ancient Greek letters; Maronian letters; Ethiopian and Phrygian letters; Georgianian letters; Jacobites' and Cophtites' letters; Illiric and Slavonian letters; Croatic and Dalmatian letters; Israelites letters; Samaritan letters; Chaldean letters; Syriac letters; Indian letters; Sarsinians letters; Arminian letters; Arabic letters
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