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teenth horizontal line of the table of founds, in the words, 
_gouff, maF 3--maw, mon ;---mafs,. mas; &c. 
me: | 
Seventeenth vocal: the mouth isa little open; the tip 
of the tongue raifed to the roof of the mouth, and the 
found paffes through the nofe; this is therefore another 
nafal vowel.---Its power may be found in the fifteenth 
horizontal line of the table of founds, in the words aut, 
maT ;--waught, nou T ;--maP ;--neck, nEK; &c. 
D 
Eighteenth vocal: the mouth remains open as in the 
laft (7) the tip of the tongue is drawn back, the middle 
being raifed to the back of the mouth, and preventing the 
found from iffuing but by the nofe. This is therefore the 
third nafal vowel. ‘This found is very .common in the 
Englith language, though there was no appropriated cha~ 
racter, but it was generally exprefled by ng as in longing, 
or by mas.in longer. Its true power may be found in the 
fixteenth -horizontal line of the table of founds, in the 
swords, tomgues, TInz;-~hang, Han ;--length, Lape, &e. 
§ 
The nineteenth vocal---the mouth remains as in the 
two laft, but the tip ofthe tongue is a little raifed by the 
dilatation of the tongue behind, which ftops the found 
entirely,* till the lungs have made fuch a vocal effort as to 
force the air between the tongue.and the back part of the 
roof of the mouth, at which time the g ceafes, and, by 
: opening 
* When the voice, by pafling the Glottis, has filled the Cavity with air between that and 
the part preffed by the middle of the tongue, the found ceafes or ftops, and cannot be cons 
tinued as in other vowels; therefore I have called this a ftopt vocal. Of fimilar formation are 
b and d, therefore of the fame denomination. 'Thefe three vowels can alfo be pronounced in- 
telligibly, although the mouth and nofe fhould both be ftopt. 
