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all the Latin characters appear in perfect array. Those 

 elicited by the process we have jnst been supposing, would 

 naturally occupy the following order, if taken as they ap- 

 pear in the last arrangement of the columns, beginning with 

 the first and terminating with the fifth. 



And a glance of the eye will convince us that even these 

 without any addition constitute an alphabet very nearly 

 perfect: for with respect to the characters deficient, d is 

 but the softened sound of t. — h but an aspiration. — k 

 has the same power as c hard. — w is not necessary in Latin, 



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