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It may perhaps be considered as affording some degree of con- 

 firmation to this opinion, that it was formed from a simple consi- 

 deration of the Hebrew characters, in relation to the sensible ob- 

 jects designated by their names, without knowing, at the time, how 

 much support it might derive from other sources ; and from the con- 

 sideration of the analogies of the characters of other languages. 



Such are the ideas, whicli have been suggested to my mind on 

 this subject, and which perhaps may be deemed not altogether un- 

 worthy of attention ; inasmuch as they offer something towards 

 reconciling an apparent anomaly in written languages, as com- 

 pared one with another. 



