But note, that due care must be taken to notice the Signs rightly - that is, the order of the first and second Signs, for the answer otherwise differs: that is to say, not to mistake in placing No. 2, for No. 1, and vice versa. But a little practice will render this pursuit plain, intelligible, and easy; and, without practice, the easiest methods, it must be remembered, will seem difficult.

Here follows another Example, at large:-

Now turn to the Book, and in the columns of Oracles you will find your signs, at page 143, give this interpretation, 6r response:

Sign1.

Sign2.

"Many of,thy griefs ore no more, yet thy vision still forewarns thee to beware!"

One more Example of these cases will suffice to render the reader perfect in the revelations of Dreams:-

At page 143 is the Oracular response thereto, namely:-

Sign 1. Sign 2

"Misfortunes approach - be warned: thy Dream foretells a loss of money, or dearth of gold and silver"

With sincerity on the part of the Querist, the foregoing simple instructions are all that are requisite in this curious inquiry, and it is presumed, the pleasure derived from such attention to the foregoing rules will more than recompense for the difficulty of learning them.

Note.

In order to render the method of predictions by Dreams still more easy, the following additional instructions are adjoined to the original plan of the manuscript.

Having formed the two Signs by Ciphers, as before shown, place them together side by side, as underneath, and out of the two figures make an Index, or third figure, by counting the points of each, whether odd or even. Example:-

Sign 1.

Sign2.

In the 1st line are 4 Ciphers, which are even: therefore, mark down two Ciphers

Index.

This makes the Third Sign, or INDEX, which having found, refer to the Table of Indexes, and see what word answers thereto: that word will be found at the top of the page which contains the Signs and their Answers, By this method, the interpretations will be easily found without further difficulty. Thus, the word over the Index is Aries; over the Index is Sol, and so of the rest, in due order, as before. A little practice will render this familiar to the Reader.

Note also, that in order to obviate entirely any seeming difficulty in counting the Ciphers, the reader may join them together by two and two, as underneath shewn, in the following example:-

Place these two signs together, thus, and draw oat the index, as before shown:-

Sign 1.

Sign 2

Index.

The index answers to the word or key DIANA, page 121, and the following is the interpretation of the dream:- "The dream presages money and goods, in due season; the star of the dreamer's destiny shines kindly"

And moreover observe, that when one sign is found in the columns, the other is easily discovered, by its corresponding signature, in every case that can possibly occur.

The following are the tabular names of the Indexes, which are at the head of each page:

By a study of the foregoing Table, the answers will easily be discovered; although the index may be left out of the question, and the dream interpreted without this latter process, if the Reader take the trouble to turn over the pages of the book, and seek out the Signs in the Columns of Oracles, The Index in all cases is made by counting the odd and even points, and care must be taken with its formation, so as not to mistake the Signs: a slight degree of practice will render this familiar.

And NOTE WELL, that this is the first Book in the English language which contains the " Sephromantic Art"or Divination by Ciphers, being totally distinct from those works which use points or lines. The number of ten lines of Ciphers is arbitrary, as it has reference to the ten numeral figures in Arithmetic

Note also, that the more earnest and intent the Reader may be upon discovering the interpretation of his "Dream, in the same ratio may the truth of the Oracle be relied on; for, although there is no kind of divination perfect, without the entire con, currence of the mind "to will and to do,, void of all attention to surrounding objects, yet doubtless much amusement, and in some instances good INSTRUCTION,may be derived from these proceedings. Of all kinds of prescience into futurity, the science of Judicial Astrology holds pre. - eminence,-But. from a variety of difficulties, which naturally arise in the pursuit of that branch of knowledge, the art of interpreting dreams thereby is abstruse and intricate. These difficulties are obviated in the present work, which, although it cannot be said to lay claim to the unerring calculations derived from "the courses of the Stars," is. nevertheless, well worthy strict attention.

Lastly Observe, that it is by no means essential for the Reader to make the Ciphers or marks perfect: Any Kind Or Method Of Making Them Will Answer The Purpose, even if they are mere blots instead of Ciphers, if the Reader be perfectly sincere in his wishes to interpret the Dream.