text:  From this I have been also led to discover the real nature of a pronoun and how words have been made in the beginning of time and how they have increased from a single letter or at most from two to all which they have at present: by which means we may see the state of languages at different periods of the world even such as they must have been ages before the building of the tower of Babel; which knowledge will it is presumed throw great light on the ancient history of the world since men must in the composition of words have ever made allusion to things already known and such as might serve to explain the words they made