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Excerpt from The Brachial Telegraph: An Original Method of Conversing and Signalizing on Land and at Sea, by Means of Human Arms, at Any and All Distances, Even Within Furthest Range of the Telescope
The capitals, as seen in the above diagrams, resemble the letters of the Signal Alphabet already given, the 0 representing the body of the person signalizing; in the small letters the O is omitted. This written alphabet might be used for cipher or secret correspondence, and by agreement between correspondents, each symbol might represent a different letter from that assigned to it in the above plate.
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