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At tlie same time, though much more faintly, a secondary 

 descending scale will be heard proceeding concurrently with the 

 ascending one and exactly reversing it. 



Again, if the same nine words be spoken aloud in order 

 without dropping the voice till the last word is reached, tae first 

 eight will form a chromatic scale, which in the same voice 

 ascends from the e below the base staff, thus 



- Z. ^_J uJ=;^^;^i^feg-d 



00 oh aw ah ur eh u ee ow 



One person should read the sounds, another listen ; as the 

 reader finds it hard to listen to himself,* and when the words 

 have been read a few times, their vowel sounds, as just re- 

 presented, should be read in the same way, which will yield still 

 cleai'er results. 



Lastly, whether whispered or spoken aloud, each of the 

 other series makes a scale similar to that of the free full vowels 

 series, each starting in turn a semi-tone above the series preced- 

 ing it. 



To obtain these results, the reader must be careful to lay no 

 stress upon any word. But the rising or falling of a stress 

 simply takes us into another key, and if the same stress were 

 given to the words that follow, they would be at the same 

 musical interval from each other as before. 



The following syllables, if the voice be dropt only at the last 

 in each line, will make a tune. 



doo, daw, dur, day, dee, dow. 

 dee, dur, day, daw, do, dow. 



The discovery of the first two scales led the speaker to reflect 

 whether consonants might be classified in a way similar to 

 musical instruments, and he perceived the following considerable 

 analogy. (The aspirated consonants set down in the table are 

 each derived from the unaspirated on their left by dropping the 

 lower organ of speech, whether tongue or lip, downward and for- 

 ward, and so allowing more air to pass over it, as is best seen by 

 comparing the r of azure with the z of zeal, or sh in shine with « 

 in sine.) 



* At hia demonstration Mr. Rouse had the words read over by the Secretary, 

 and after some trials, nearly everyone in the audience testified to hearing the two 

 chief scales. 



