:!t3^ Observations on Language. 



^me other North-American tribes. But it is lost out of 

 the English, French, Latin, &c. In the Irish it is ex- 

 pressed by gh ; in the Scotch, by ch ; as Lough, Loch. 

 The syllables, which terminate in English, in gh, were 

 originally pronounced in the same manner. But the^/z 

 is now either quiescent, or converted into the sound of 

 f; as daughter laughter. 



The French u is perhaps peculiar to that nation. If 

 this be true ; the words, in which it is found, when 

 transferred to another language, will always assume a 

 new pronunciation. The same may be said of their 

 nasal m, and n. 



A perfect al])habet, if we exclude the French nasal 

 m, and ;?, contains 44 letters ; if we include them, 46. 

 These, distributed, in a natural order, are the following^ 



Rou2;h. Middle. Smooth. 



Be. Pe. J C eth. eth. "JL. el. 



^ , De. Te. t i 1 r i ev. ef. ^ f M. era. 



Loud, trt -tr JjOW. > < Loud. Low. >,-r 



Ua. Ka. r j ez. es. ^JN. en. 



Je. Che. 3 ' ^j French, esh. } NG. eng. 



R. Smooth. 



R. Rough, 



Aspirates. H. he. 

 Vowels. X. chi. Greek, 



a in face, 

 in bat, 

 in barn. 

 e in fleece, 

 bet, 

 berm. 

 in fine, Consonants, 



fit, Rough 8 



ir. Middle 8 



in bone, Smoot 6 



home. Aspirates 



bott, 



born. 24 



00 in boot. Vowels 20 



bush. 



u in Bruce, 44 



but, 



burn. 



u French. 



11 Indescribable*. 



