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and Italian, but alfo the oriental and other lan- 

 guages ; as well as the pronunciation and 

 knowledge of thefe different languages : Leip- 

 fic, publifhed by Gefner 1743. In this book 

 are contained the alphabets and firft elements of 

 a hundred different languages, as well ancient 

 as modern. This work was reprinted in 1748, 

 and very confiderably augmented, under the 

 title of The mafter of the oriental and occiden- 

 tal languages. To this has been added the 

 Lord's prayer, in two hundred languages, an- 

 cient and modern, in the characters proper to 

 each, with the dialect or manner of pronoun- 

 cing the prayer-, which contributes greatly to 

 facilitate the attaining an idea of thefe languages. 

 The author of this equally curious and inftruc- 

 tive book is M. John Frederic Frits ; and he 

 was afiifted by the Danifh miflionary Schults of 

 Hall. The fuccefibrs of Homann of Nuren- 

 burg have alfo publifhed four geographico-phi- 

 lological maps, defigned by Godfrey Henlcl , 

 which bear the following titles : i . Europa po- 

 lyglotta, linguarum genealogiam exhibens, una 



litteris, fcribendique modis omnium gen- 

 tium : 2. Afia : 3. Africa; with the lame 

 title : and 4. America cum fupplementis po- 

 lyglottis. The four parts of the world are en- 

 graved and coloured on thefe maps ; but in 

 every country, inftcad of the names of its 

 cities and provinces, is fecn the begin- 

 ning of >rd's prayer, in the chara 



in that country; fo that with a finglc 



lance 



