collections of the fingers. He would thus get words in his own language answering to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. As his wants increased, he would find it necessary to give names to larger numbers; but here he would be stopped by the immense quantity of words which he must have, in order to express all the numbers which he would be obliged to make use of. He must, then, after giving a separate name to a few of the first numbers, manage to express all other numbers by means of those
- I now shew how this has been done in our own language. The English names of numbers have been formed from the Saxon: and in the following table each number after ten is written down in one column, while another shews its connexion with those which have preceded it.
| One | eleven | ten and one [2] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| two | twelve | ten and two | ||
| three | thirteen | ten and three | ||
| four | fourteen | ten and four | ||
| five | fifteen | ten and five | ||
| six | sixteen | ten and six | ||
| seven | seventeen | ten and seven | ||
| eight | eighteen | ten and eight | ||
| nine | nineteen | ten and nine | ||
| ten | twenty | two tens | ||
| twenty-one | two tens and one | fifty | five tens | |
| twenty-two | two tens and two | sixty | six tens | |
| &c. &c. | &c. &c. | seventy | seven tens | |
| thirty | three tens | eighty | eight tens | |
| &c. | &c. | ninety | nine tens | |
| forty | four tens | a hundred | ten tens | |
| &c. | &c. | |||
| a hundred and one | ten tens and one | |||
| &c. &c. | ||||
| a thousand | ten hundreds | |||
| ten thousand | ||||
| a hundred thousand | ||||
| a million | ten hundred thousand | |||
| or one thousand thousand | ||||
| ten millions | ||||
| a hundred millions | ||||
| &c. |