top of the next line towards the Left-hand, and defcend as 
in the former ; proceeding in this order with all the reft, 
which way muft needs be very Inconvenient for writ ng, 
iiowever they may ufe their Pencil differing from our Pen. 
Though there be a way of Writing from the top to the 
bottom of the Page, which is very convenient for Writing 
theSyriack, as alio for Writing Latihe, Englifh, or Greek 
w^here the Writing is to be ufed for cutting the ftamps of 
Wood, or Graving of Copper Plates with the fame Cha- 
racter for Printing, in which Cafes tlie Letters muft be 
written backwards* 
Secondly, as to the Pronounciation of this Character, 
by the Court Language, or by any other now ufed, I con- 
ceive it to be wholy differing from that of a Litteral Cha- 
racter, that is from being pronounced or fpoken according 
to the Marks or Figures thereof, whether they be fimple or 
compounded and made up of Smple Characters ( though 
there are fbme inftances of aiBnity in Characters and 
Words.) The reafbn of which differing pronounciation I 
conceive may have proceeded, partly from the Ipfi of the 
Primitive Language, for which it was made, partly fi'om a 
moft inconvenient affectation of Monalyllabical Words in 
this Court Language, to help the poverty of which, they 
are fain to make one Syllable to fignify many differing No- 
tions, to do which they have introduced a Idnd of Muficai 
toning or accenting of each of them, and that not fingle but 
compound of two or tliree tones to each fignification of eye- 
ry one of thefe Monafyllables ; Pap^^ 
way of Writirig, ] by d i\fers Nations of Differing Laag^^ag^Sj < 
who minding only ,the Figure .and Sigrufecatipn, Readjj^f 
into their own Mother Tongues, as we in Europe do Arith-i 
metical Figures : and partly, alio from the omiflion of moft. 
Grammatical Diftinctions, the fame Character feryingfor. 
Subftantive and Adjective, Singular and Plural, - in all Cfafes^t 
( lave only they have fbme Charaaers for Par;id^ 
rciiafenglifii )^ the; Verb in aUTenfes, and aaum|>gr%&f., 
