343 Mr. Pickering on the OrtJwgrapliy of the 



would expresss by tch and the Germans by tsch. It would be 

 desirable, it is true, to have a character of greater simplicity than 

 these three letters make, and on that account our ch would be 

 preferable to tsh ; but for the reasons before given (under khj 

 it would not be expedient to adopt it. The Russians in their 

 copious alphabet are fortunate in having a single character to 



denote this sound, as we have in our J, for the 



espondiug 



fiat one ; they would express our cA by NT, which resembles our 

 h inverted 5 and if there was as much literary intprcourse with the 

 Russians, as with the Germans and other people of Europe, and 

 the rest of the proposed alphabet was common to them and other 

 nations, it might be found advisable to add to it this very useful 



Russian character. 



Y. 



The letter F, whenever it shall be wanted, will have the 

 usual power. But probably there will not be much use for it in 



many of the Indian* dialects, for the reasons given under the 

 letter F, 



W. 



This letter has been already considered in the remarks upon 



the vowels, at pag 



(is the Rev. Mr. Heckewekler observes,} 



the letter fF" is placed before a vowel, it sountU the same as in English; before 

 a consonant it represents a ivhistled sound, of which I cannot well "-ive vou an 

 idea on paper, 5cc. See his Correspondence with Mr. Du Ponceau^ p. S96. 

 Mr. Du Ponceau, in a letter to me, says upon this point — " I have analysed 

 the whistling TFof the Delaware?. It i- nothing more than our 00 consonant, 

 IV or u-h, m well, what. The Belawares pronounce it immediately before a 

 consonant without an intervening vowel ; which habit enables them to do, while 



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