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200. If Welsh rh is made sonant, it will bear considerable resemblance to Slavonic r2* 
which, in Bohemian is both sonant and surd, although unacknowledged. It is a trilled x 
with a concurrent buz very like French j—itself the aspirate of some variety of d. The 
hypothesis is here offered, that this sound is due to an attempt to vocalise rh, and it is 
acknowledged to be a philologic analogue of 7, as in Polish, Rzym Rome, Bohemian, R‘egor’ 
Gregory, Bedr"ich Frederic. 
201. Jn the consonant scheme of the Penny Cyclopeedia, (1833, Vol. I, p. 380, by Prof. 
T. H. Key,) b, bh, p, ph, are arranged around the bottom of a cube, one at each angle; 
the dentals around the middle, and the gutturals around the top; so that d is above 8, 
and cay above d, the letters on the angles being 
b p d t g g 
bh ph dh th Do Cex 
The silibants are arranged in an independent class, and the “liquids” 7, 7, m, n,—a very 
objectionable arrangement, for the omitted wh and ng are as important as ph and n; and 
ph, f, th, s, sh, form a regular gradation of aspirates going back from the lips. An octa- 
gonal figure would have given several better arrangements, of which the following is one— 
w wh hey y yh 
p ph t th G a 
* A fact first noticed (Jan. 29th, 1858,) whilst constructing the foregoing scheme for this essay, and trying the 
vocal effect of its constituents. Mr. Hillis (ts.) calls attention to the following relations, the sounds represented 
above z and zh being sonant— 
rh rh srh arh 
s z sh ah 
