826 : General Notes. [ December, 
The Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society 
publishes, in No. 42, a paper by Col. Charles Whittlesey, entitled 
“ Rock Inscriptions in the United States—Ancient Alphabets of 
Asia.” 
In Vol. i, Part 1, of Proceedings of the Central Ohio Scientific 
Association, of Urbana, Ohio, we have another evidence of the 
growing interest in science which manifests itself in our Western 
States. The principal contribution is a Report of the Antiquities 
of Mad River valley, by Prof. Thos. F. Moses, Urbana University, 
accompanied by eight plates of illustrations. Another valuable 
contribution to the archeology of Ohio which has hitherto 
escaped our notice, is the Final Report of the Ohio State Board 
of Centennial Managers, published in Columbus in 18 
The following alphabet was prepared by Prof. Wm. D. Whit- 
ney to aid collectors in transliterating Indian vocabularies. The 
almost hopeless confusion in which the material already gathered 
is involved, is a sufficient motive for all writers on Indian lin- 
guistics to adopt it at once, or at least to show cause why they 
should not. The columns of this esos are open to criti- 
cisms upon the subject: 
a or , rene as in agile FONG Gm, haben 
a oră, shor » Fr. pas; nearly as in (Eng.) what, not. 
a, as in , man 
â, as in law, far, all. 
as, Fr. en in en, guand. 
a, as Fr. ¿n in vin, Agia iein, 
a, as Fr. o in on, son , 
ai, as in ‘aisle Gm. mein, iin n (Eng. ) pine, find. 
âi, as oi or oy in oil, boy. 
au, as ou or ow in out, h Gm. faus. 
; as in 6/ab, Gm. beben, Fr. belle 
of, nearly as 64 in cobhouse. 
bh, as Gm. w in schwer, zwei. 
c (or ae as ade in church, a , cielo, 
a, n dread, Gm. das, Fr. de. 
d, neatly as as dh in nar Set 
dh, as fh in then, with. 
eoré, long asin they, Gm. bee 
eoré, short as in then, Gm. ball Fr. sienne. 
Ti as in, fife, Gm. feuer, Fr. feu 
& in gig, Gm. z ss, Fr. gros 
p, early as gh in ne ouse 
gh, (aeerty as Arab. gain. ] 
Aes as in ha, he, hoot, ae, Gm. haben. i 
x, stronger re, aay 
hw, =r when 
hy, in 
ior?, long asin is Pie: Gm. thn, Fr. 
tor#, short as in Gm. will, Fr. tei aoa as in (Eng.) pick, thin. 
as in 
as in ick, Gm. kamm, Fr. quand, 
nearly as Bh in inkhorn 
as Gm. ch in ich, milch, kirche. 
as in Zui, Gm. /allen, Fr, lilie. 
as It. in moglie, an French briller. 
as in mum, Gm. m 
