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( 10 ) Several characters, or ſemblance of letters, and lines in the hand, as they tend to ſignify riches, honour, long life, marriage, short life, poverty, loſs, number of wives, children, ſickneſs, untimely death, and many other things, according to the art of Palmiſtry. THERE are in this caſe divers letters and T lines appearing in the hand, by which the wife of all ages have given judgment, in the foregoing premiſes. If the character A be found in the mount of Jupiter, or the root of the middle finger, it promiſes a growing fortune, and perhaps con- ſiderable prefermert by the favour of princes and great men. If a B be found on the mount of the Sun, which is at the root of the fourth finger, it ſignifies length of days, proſperity, and much to be believed, alſo a virtuous perſon. If O with a ſtar over it appears on the mount of Venus, it gives the perſon early and happy marriage, promiſes many children, and a merry life. If the letter L be on the mount of Saturn. which is at the root of the middle finger, and be cut with croſs lines, it denotes the party to undergo much affliction, to be given up to melancholy, and to be but ſhort liv'd, &c. The letter K upon the mount of Mercury, - which is at the root of the little finger, denotes the party to riſe to preferment by ingenuity and marriage.