MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES &C. 
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My broad a was not intended for tlie short broad o, as in modify 
not, hot, &c., but to express the broad German and Scotch sound as 
a in fall, wall, all. Mr. Jones denies that there is a French u in 
the language although the Siamese have, he admits, sounds which 
bear some slight resemblance to that of the French vowel, but 
are far from being identical with it. I will not argue this point ; 
but only observe that sin ce he has told us what this sound is not, 
we could wish that he had shewn what it really is. I confess my 
inability to pronounce this vowel in many words, either when long 
or short. I would suggest for experiment, the words pun (gun), 
prasut, lhat. At any rate the Siamese alphabet has two distinct 
marks or sets of marks for this non-descript vowel, being the 5th 
and 6th in order, thus ii short and d broad.** It is occasionally gut¬ 
tural, at other times drawled out as in un-prasut. 
When I remarked that the Siamese seemed to have no distinct 
Bali Code of Civil and Criminal Law, I certainly did not by any 
means wish it to be inferred, as Mr. Jones has done, that I had 
overlooked the DJiamma Satr, which, as far as I know of it, is a re¬ 
ligious not a Civil Code. 
I am not answerable for Dr. Leyden’s titles of Codes. My paper 
alluded to was compiled about 1825, and I have not had an oppor¬ 
tunity of correcting the Press. The Codes from which I drew most 
of my information have been perhaps loosely transcribed by copyists. 
The Dot or Thet P,hra Ayakan was presented by me to the Royal 
Asiatic Society in whose Museum it doubtless remains. 
Mr. Jones has very properly corrected the error of T,ho sok hav¬ 
ing been explained as denoting two years of a century, instead of being 
two years of a cycle of twelve years. But this mode of computing 
is merely to assist the memory by a subdivision of time and has no 
effect on any actual era. It is evidently of Bali or Brahmanieal ori¬ 
gin, from the Indian numerals being employed. 
Mr. Jones states that the Buddhist Era (of Siam) has now readi¬ 
ed the 2399th year, and consequently differs from the Christian Era 
551 years. I am not aware that the Siamese have ever disclaimed 
Ceylon as the fountain head of their faith, quite the reverse. I have 
always understood and been told by their Priests that their religious 
era and that of Ceylon and Camboja are identical. Now the Cey- 
>? The want of Siamese types obliges us to omit the characters which Co¬ 
lonel Low here gives.— Ed. 
