fible in the ufe of the prefent Characters or Alphabets, to 
add thofe wanthig, and tocorreftand limit me Sound of 
others in ufe ; thereby to conftitute a perfect Alphabet, be- 
caufe people lb long accuftomed, or habituated to fuch cor- 
rupt and differing Expreffions of the prefent Charafters, 
will be always iiibject on the fight of the old, to give them 
thofe Sounds they have been ufed to, and to fpell words ac- 
cording to their old and corrupt Cuftom, whatfbever Rules 
fhall be let to the contrary ; and therefore there w ill be a 
neceflity of a whole new Set of Characters, both of Vowels^ 
and Confomnts. 
Hitherto I have endeavoured to make a Coliedion of all 
the fingle Vowels and Confonants, which are ufed in any 
Language ; in which, if I have not collected all thole that 
are, yet in the method I have ufed therein, I hope I have 
attained nigher to it, than any other Collection extant. I' 
have likewife fhown the neceflity of a new Set of Literal 
Chara£lers,&: fiich a one is this I here propofejFirft the Set of 
Confbnantal Charafters, are to be ften in the top of Page 
(137) being ranged in the fame method & order with thofe 
in the foregoing Table. The firft Rank in every file arc 
thofe I name Radical Charafters, the other fucceeding 
Ranks have each a diftin^ Charafteriftical Addition to di- 
flinguifh them one from another, which caufeth fbme com- 
plication ; but yet I judged it neceffary to exprefs the fame 
in the Charafler, the more regularly to fort; them into ClafT- 
€s, and to exprefs the derivation of Letters of the fame Or- 
gane, the one from the other. 
The Set of Vocal Charafters is likewife in the fame Page 
with the Confbnants \ in writing they are to be placed o- 
ver theConfbnants, which they follow in Expreflion; and 
whereas fbme Syllables begin with a Vowel, place the 12th. 
Confbnantal Charader, anfwering to the Hebrew^ Jlefh \ and 
over the fame place the Vowel beginning fuch a Syllable. 
This Charafter may feem fbmewhat to complicate for 
difpatch in ordinary V^riting, but for Printing it will be 
the 
