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It is scarcely necessary to observe that in forming this 

 arrangement he would naturally place, as I have done, the 

 characters in the order in which the sounds occurred in the 

 verses he was endeavouring to analyse. — For example, he 

 would place Ar in the first column of the table ; — ma in the 

 ^ame column, vi in the second column, n^min the third, que 

 in the fourth, ca in the first again, and uo in the fifth -, and 

 the prevailing sounds in the respective columns would not 

 be in the order of our vowels, but thus: — a. i. u. e. o. and 

 with respect to the situation of the characters in each co- 

 lumn, they would be nearer the top or bottom in proportion 

 as the sounds they represented were near the beginning or 

 end of the verses submitted to this process. I have only to 

 add that a person accustomed to pronounce the Latin lan- 

 guage after the English fashion, may object to my arranging 

 together sounds so dissimilar as vi and m, fu and mus; but 

 there are strong grounds to believe that they were not so 

 pronounced by Virgil. The Italians, the French, the Span- 

 ish, th'C Portuguese ; — in fact all those nations whose lan- 

 guages are derived to any extent from the Latin, for the most 

 part agree in pronouncing a as in all, i as in ill, o as in ore, 

 and u as in pure; e sometimes as in revere, and sometimes 

 as in revcrij ; and their evidence on this point has the force 

 of four witnesses, testifying and coroborating the testimony 

 of each other, that the Romans, from whom they derive their 

 lajUguages, transmitted to them also this mode of pronounc- 

 ing them. 



