ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY 



verb, with which it agrees. On the whole, I guefs, 

 that the diftich fhould thus be written : 



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Yecddu hhina tundjicum d'emdirund 

 Yakdl dlaind 'lafay lau Id tadffind. 



Ci When our bofoms impart their fecrets to you, an- 

 « ffuifh would almoft fix our doom, if we were not 

 " mutually to confole ourfelves." 



The principal verbs may have a future fenfe, and 

 the laft word may admit of a different interpretation. 

 Dr. Hunt, I remember, had found in Giggeius the 

 word dhemdyer, which he conceived to be in the origi- 

 nal. After all, the rhyme feems imperfect, and the 

 meafure irregular. Now I afk whether fuch perplexi- 

 ties could have arifen, if D'Herbelot, or his editor, had 

 formed a regular fyftem of expreffing Arabickm Roman 

 characters, and had apprized his readers of it in his 

 introductory differtation ? 



If a further proof be required, that fuch a fyftem 

 will be ufeful to the learned, and effential to the fludent, 

 let me remark, that a learner of Perjian, who fhould 

 read in our beft hillories, the life of Sultan Azim, and 

 wifh to write his name in Arabick letters, might exprefs 

 it thirty-nine different ways, and be wrong at laft. 

 The word fhould be written Adzem, with three points 

 on the firft confonant. 



There are two general modes of exhibiting Afiatick 

 words in our own letters: they are founded on principles 

 nearly oppofite j but each of them has its advantages, 



and 



