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ning and completion of the found. Moreover, each 
of thefe founds might be continued during the longeft 
interval of refpiration, and being then inftantly 
joined with any ufually fucceeding letter, the latter 
part of any of thofe founds would be as rationally 
confiftent with fuch fucceeding letter, as would any 
of the parts which preceded; thus, for example, 
the word fhine, the continuous found of jk being 
reprefented by a continuous line : 
fh 
J thine, 
Now thefe pofitions would not be true, if thofe 
double characters confifted of double founds; a fin- 
gle letter is, therefore, amply fufficient for a fingle 
found. And it is well known, that the Italians do 
' not require a double letter to reprefent the found 
of the Spanifh and Englifh CH ; for after the powers 
of their letter C, in its different ftates, have been 
once known, there are no further exceptions and 
itregularities, ferving to embarrafs a learner. And 
hence, one individual found is fufficiently defined 
by the fimple C ; as in the firft fyllable of cervello, 
and the fecond of uccello; which laft, as the term for 
bird, is highly expreffive of the chirp of one. And, 
indeed, man feems, by that fuperior, imitative 
power, wherewith the Divine Being has qualified 
him, to have added greatly to his primitive ftock of 
language ; as well as to many of the arts, whofe 
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