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 Chap. XIII. 2. They may be ubjoyned to each of the other; as in thee Intances:

3. They may be both prepoed and ubjoyned to themelves and to one another.

As for the other intermediate Vowels being prepoed before one another, they will not afford any coalecing ounds that are eaily ditinguihable. E being prepoed before ɑ, a, o, ỿ, will carce be ditnguihed from ɩɑ, ɩa, ɩo, ɩỿ. A, before E, will be but as ā, before ɑ, o, u, it will not coalece into a plain ound. The ame likewie may be aid of the other Vowels, ɑ, o. So that of this kind the whole number is twenty four. And this I conceive to be a ufficient enumeration of the natural Dipthongs.

I cannot deny but that other Dipthongs may be made by the mixture of the Vowel (ỿ) which were perhaps in ue amongt the Jews, and expret by (ע) But being now, as I think, generally diued amongt other Nations, and for that reaon very difficult to be pronounced, I hall not therefore take any further notice of them.

When two Vowels are put together by way of DipthougDipthong [sic], o as to coalece in one Syllable, ’tis neceary that there hould be ome Note or Mark in their Characters, to ignifie their conjunction, as is uual in ome of the Greek and Latin Dipthongs; as —  œ, æ, Otherwie there can be no certainty, whether the word be to be pronounced as a Monoyllable, or Diyllable, as in D-u-el, Duel. Sw-et, Swet.

’Tis a common Aertion amongt Grammarians, Prician, Quintilian, and others, That no one yllable can conit of three Vowels, and conequently that there can be no Tripthongs; which I conceive to be founded upon the former mitake; namely, that ɩ and ȣ are to be ued as Cononants: For ’tis evident, that each of thee may coalece with every one of the firt Dipthongs, as ɩaȣ, yaw, ȣaɩ, way, ɩeȣ yew, ȣỿɩ, in wile, wight, qui, &c.

The compound Cononants are uually ditinguihed into uch as are

1. Thoe are tiled apirated, which eem to be mixed with (H) and are uually o written; as θ, φ, χ,. But in propriety of peech, if apiration be defined to be an impetus of Breathing, then thee Cononants cannot o fitly be aid to be apirated, but rather incraated by Rh