deflgned for us before, having mifcarried at Sea,which we have not been able 
hitherto to get fuppli'd, becaufe of the fcarcity of'che Copies of that Edition, 
ss it was fignified to us from A mfterdam. 
It is divided into three parts : The Firft, in Five Dialogues, treateth 
I. Of the Motions and ConfigHrations of the Mouth of Man • and how a 
Man, born deaf, and confequently dumb, nriay come to underftand both 
them, and by them the Mind of him that forms them i Where 'cis obferved, 
that a Man born deaf is not altogether deftitute of all Motion of his Tongue, 
and that he may be taught to underfland others by the Morions of their 
Mouth and Tongue, much after the manner as others are taught to read-, 
but that this is much more eafiiy pradicable in thofe widt-momhed Langua- 
ges, which do remarkably expofeto the Eye the Motions of the Tongue, 
Lips, Throat, c^(7. than in thofe that ars mrrow-mouthed, and require but 
very flight Motions of the Lips and the other Organs of Speech To which 
is annexed a Method futable to that principle, of teaching deaf and dumb 
Men to fpeak ; together with an Example of a Mu[ician^who being altoge- 
ther deaf, and weak-fighted wichall, was by the Author brought fo far in the 
fpace of three weeks, that he w is able to anfwer to all that was fpokento 
him, provided it were done flowly, and with a well-opened Mouth ; who 
alfo afterwards by himfdf, asfoon as he h:id by this very way learned to 
know the Letters, and to Read, did, by confronting only the 6'<rr^^^ and 
Hebrew Bibles, learn in a fhort time the Hebrew Tongue fo well, that now he 
unde rftands the whole /7f^r^)?? Bible. 
Of the Proprieties of the Hebrew Tongue. How the Letters thereof are 
meer re.prefen cations of the Motions of the Mouth? How the Hebrew Al- 
fk^het may be defcribed, (as 'tis done here) by reprefenting the Letters 
thereof in the yl/f??^/-/?/ of fo many pictured Mens heads? Howthi^ Alphabet 
is to be compared with other ways of Writing ? To which is added a Dif- 
quifition concerning the true ancient manner of Writing, and the original 
of other ways, and how the true way may be found out^ and how much the 
Names of the Letters conduce thereunto f 
3. Of the Nature and Properties of the T ongue of Man. Where flrft: is 
conlidered the Speech of young Children, how and in what order that is- 
made : then, the requifitenefs of the Change of T one to Speech ^ and how by 
the various Openings of the Mouth and the Teeth, that change is caufed. 
After which the Author proceeds to the defcription of the Tongue^ wind- 
flpe^ la^jnx^ Epiglottis ^ where he not only (hews, how by a peculiar ufe of 
the Epiglottis one may come to fpeak inwardly, as do the Ventriloqm^ by at* 
trading the Breath, ?.nd without Opening the Mouth- but annexeth alfo 
divers Rules concerning the Motions of theTongu?,obfervingefpecially the 
perpetual concord of the Mouth and Tongue in their Motions,and the Repre- 
fentation of the Tongue's Motion, requifitc for every Letter, in the Image 
and Hgure of fuch Letter, 
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