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Vowels by 2 apiece, as Cuftom fometimes does, 
to fliew which I mean; and, beginning from the 
fmalleft Aperture of the Organs to the moft dilated, 
they arc thefe. 
I. 
00 
ooze 
ftool 
too 
2. 
oa 
oat 
ftole 
to 
3- 
ee 
eel 
fteel 
fee 
4- 
ea 
eat 
fieal 
fea. 
5 . 
ai 
aid 
Jlale 
6. 
aa 
aaron 
ftamen 
( fol ^)fa 
7- 
au 
autumn 
fall 
faw 
Though vocal Sounds, like inftrumental, may, in 
Speculation, admit of numberlefs Diftin&ions, ya, 
as Experience fhcws that 7 Notes, flatten'd or fharp- 
ened, upon Occaflon, fuffice for a pra&ical Gamut, 
or Scale of Mufic, fo I incline to think, that 7 vo- 
cal Notes or Vowels, varied in fome correfpondent 
manner, or ftruck, as one may fay, in diphthongal 
or triphthongal Chords with each other, may well 
enough account for the Sounds of our Language ; 
or pofllbly of any other, if it be conftder'd, that dif- 
ferent Voices, as well as Inftruments, have fome- 
what fo peculiar in them, that nothing but the Ear 
itfelf is able to diftinguifh. 
However, as far as thefe 7 Vowels extend, if they 
were denoted by any common Characters, as, fup- 
pofe at prefent, by the 7 firft numeral Figures, the 
abfurd Variety which Cuftom has introduc’d of ex- 
prefling the fame vocal Sounds, amongft different 
Nations, even ufing the fame alphabetical Charac- 
ters, 
