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Thanks for the welcome Christine

Seems like this has been looked at from all angles already.  I'm still bothered by it tho! lol ...

There are two specific complex outlines/words that occur many times in the text, it appears as though the writer has written them in long shorthand because they were notable names/places that were uncommon to the everyday vocabulary of the time.  I hope that makes sense.  Its something I noticed in years of marking students' work too - the writing of a name/place in long shorthand to make it easier to remember and transcribe.  I can't help feeling that these two words may give some insight to the person requesting assistance with the text.  Ah well - it was good to try to employ a skill that is otherwise redundant these days 

Hi ... was doing a search on shorthand to see if anyone actually employs people with it - and found this.

I taught Dacomb Shorthand for several years in the late 70's and prided myself on being able to read anyone's shorthand.  I was also a trained court reporter but was too young to sit for the exam.

There are definitely elements of Dacomb on this page.  Dacomb was invented in the 1800's, it might be possible that this is a very raw and early form of Dacomb.  The punctuation doesn't seem consistent with Dacomb but I'd say it was a novice who didn't yet learn disjoined prefixes and suffixes - if those strokes actually existed at that time.  When you're a speed writer, the lack of lines and thick strokes (leaded strokes) dont matter, so this should have been easy.

I can only pick out a few words I'm sorry, I need to completely forget about half of the theory and then I may be able to read it.  Thats if it is Dacomb! I can't see any "n"s.!

I was going to ask if it could be about a waterfall or watermark before I even saw reference in other posts here to "Water Hotel" (just found the longhand of that!).  I'm thrown by what looks like the Pitman symbol for "with" being used several times.  The other thing that doesnt make sense is that the writer seems to be using theory taught at the beginning and end of the only standard Dacomb book on theory.

Okay, to the words!

third line: ......... a levee/levy for watermark ...........
fourth line: medium and geographical ........
6th line from bottom: ("covering" in written in longhand?") a path leading ............could be.............
second last line: ...........a few times.........
third last line: ............prefer operatives (or prototypes)
very last word on first page looks like "lukewarm"
the very last few lines on the second page seems to contain the words: ...........wife........themselves...........

an outline which is used a lot here could be a place name? consonants seem to be:  LaPTHR  or LaPGR

Tricky text! Its 6 am here, thats all my brain can process right now!