OF ASIATICK WORDS. Qf 



name of his preferving power,) or precedes the other 

 letters of the third clafs. 



Here begins the fourth feries, on which we have 

 little more to remark. The fir,ft letter of this clafs is 

 the common ta, or hard dental, if it may not rather be 

 considered as a lingual. 



o 



X. 



Its afpirate, which ought to be written with a com- 

 ma, as in the word AfwaWha, the Indian fig-tree, left 

 it be confounded by our countrymen with the Arabian 

 found in thurayyd, the Pleiads^ which is precifely the 

 Ev.gliJJi afpiration in think; a found which the Perjians 

 and French cannot eafily articulate. In Perjian it 

 fhould be expreffed by 5 with a point above it. 



The foft dental in Devatd 9 or Deity, 



The fame afpirated, as in Dlierma, juflice, virtue, 

 or piety. We muft alfo diltinguiih this letter by a 

 comma from the Arabian in dhahab, gold ; a found of 

 difficult articulation in France, and Perjia, which we 

 write thus very improperly, inftead of retaining the 

 genuine Anglo-Saxon letter; or expreffing it, as we 

 might with great convenience, dhus 



The 



