on the Englifh Alphabet. 175 
which cannot be accurately pronounced unlefs 
they be joined with their confonants : 
‘ 
dhs sete, AO, 13. 
9 8. 
S$ S 8S 8 S&S — Befides the fheva, 8 
All which founds are contained in the following 
words, under correfponding numbers: . 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 
War, car, tete, field, vote, rule, nut, allot, 
11 10 12 13 
effect, written. 
Befide thefe fimple vowels, the Hebrew has alfo 
diphthongs, as well as other languages: fuch as 
“iON. the future of “28, he fpoke, and many 
others. 
~ So much for the Vowels; which, with their 
varieties, are thus fhortly proved to be in their 
moft fimple ftate, Twetve or TurrTren—all 
of which are conftantly ufed in the Englifh lan- 
guage; and yet we have only feven characters, 
without any diftinétive marks, occafionally added, 
to reprefent them in writing; and even two of 
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have that breadth or denfity of found, which may be 
exemplified on any monochord, or on the frets of a 
Guitar, by a view of the proportionate diftances and 
places of the notes confidered abftra&tedly from found, as 
is the correfponding breadth of the prifmatic colours. 
