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the Englith language, but there wasno particular letter to 
exprefs it, being reprefented in a ftrangely inconfiftent 
manner by /hasin /hell, foL s---by /, as. in a/furance, aru- 
rans ;by s, asin Afa, ALLA; by *f2, as in nafzon, NEELAN; 
by ch, as in pinch, pint ;---by ci, as in fufpiczon sus= 
pican ;---by ce, as in Ocean, ofan ;---and its vocal 7 is alfo 
abfurdly. reprefented by s, asin treasure; z as in feizure ; 
gas in lodge; (table of founds) /, as in conclu/on, per- 
{ua/ion; and where they is written, it is always pronounc- 
ed wrong, being ever preceded in pronunciation by d, ; Er- 
_roneous applications of this found are made by the Englifh 
in many inftances, in feveral languages, not only in living 
ones, but evenin the latin.——The letter ¢ is very com- 
mon in the Ruffian, and is thus made &: The French 
fubflitute ch; the Germans /ch; and the Italians /c be- 
fore e and i.---It is, as well as the three following, called 
a fibilant afpirate; becaufe the breath, pafling forcibly, 
makes a hifling. This letter is the gs (fhin) of 
the Phenicians and Hebrews ; and isthe afpirate of jad- 
di.---It is alfo the sjim of the Arabians. ‘The power of rc 
may be found in the feventh horizontal line of the table of 
founds, inthe words, /but, cat ;---/bawl, conn ;---/hall, 
£aL 3---f/bell, cEL; &e. . : 
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Twenty-third letter, and fecond afpirate. Let the or- 
-gans be difpofed exa@tly in the fame manner as in forming 
the vocal v, and by afpiration only, the f will be produced. 
The latins called this the digamma ceolicum on account of its 
figure (f) which now forms the (/’); and, being inverted 
in the time of Claudius to fignify the v, which is its vo- 
cal, (as in DIdAI, AMPLIAdIT) it appears that the 
Romans, though well acquainted with the affinity, made 
a 
* Moh of the words that now terminate in tion formerly. ended in cion, as may be feen in a)l 
the writings of Chaucer. 
