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China is a Sanfcrit word; and it will be convenient fa 

 to write it, though I feel an inclination to exprefs it 

 otherwife. 



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The fame compofition, with a ftrong breathing arti- 

 culated after it. Harfh as it may feem, we cannot, if 

 we continue the former fymbol, avoid expreffing this 

 found, as in the word cfrhandas, metre. 



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This too feems to have been confidered by the Hindus 

 as a fimple palatine, but appears, in truth, to be the 

 complex expreffion of dzh. Perhaps the fame letter 

 may, by a fmall difference of articulation, partake of 

 two different founds. This, at leaft, we may obferve, 

 that the letter under confideration is confounded, as a 

 fimple found, with ya ; and, as a compound, wiih za y 

 one of its conftituents: thus the yd/mm of Arabia is by 

 us called jafmin; while the fame man is Giorgi at Rome, 

 and Zorzi at Venice ; or (to give an example of both 

 in a fingle word) yug, or junction, at Bdndres, is jug in 

 Bengal ; and was pronounced zug, or, in the nomina- 

 tive, zugon, at Athens. We mould, however, invari- 

 ably exprefs the letter before us by ja. 



The Arabian letters Hhal\ (lad, and Mhd, are all pro-" 

 nounced in Perjia like za, with a fort of lifp, from an 

 attempt to give them their genuine found: They may 

 be well expreffed as in fluxionary characters, by a feries 

 of points above them, z, z, z, 



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