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6 . 7* 8. 9* I0 ‘ ri * 
*= L lane H hand Y yarn R rand W 
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S feal 
By this Diftribution one is led to think, at firft, 
that he would hint that there were in Language 1 1 
times 6 , or 66 Confonants j though Experience had 
taught him to complete the 6 Ranks of his fecond 
Pile only. 
But,, as the Mark (=) by which he fignifies that 
there are indeed analogous Confonants that might be 
exprefs’d in thofe Places, but with a Difference that 
‘would be too nice for common Difcemment j and 
fuch as he had never heard exprejfed in any Lan- 
guage y as this Mark, I fay, occurs but 8 times, I 
will fuppofe him to take the real Number of Con- 
fonants in Nature to be 3 7, whereof 29 may an- 
fwer the Purpofcs of an univerfal Alphabet. 
To reduce both Files and Ranks into lefs Com- 
pafs, and plainer Order, 1 would take the real Con- 
fonants of his firft and fifth Files into one File or 
Rank 5 and place them in this manner 
P. B. M.F. V. 
difmifling the 5 unexprcfs’d (and, for any thing that 
appears, inexpreflible ones) as imaginary. 
And to this Order of Confonants all fuch as are 
ufed in our Language may be adjufted ; for, begin- 
ning thus with the labial and labiodental Confo- 
nants, and fo proceeding to the Gutturals, they will 
(land, in Rank and File, after this manner. 
4 
P. 
