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 APPENDIX III 491 their Haglish values. The rival system of Sir William Jones very properly adopted the Italian or Latin values of the Roman vowels, and this system modified by Wilson and Hunter finally won theday. Gilchrist uses o for &, the Sanserit and Hindusthani sound of % being regularly represented by w ; % is denoted by i, and ¥ by ee. উ 19 represented by oo and © by oo, and s/ is used for, &, 4; x being used wherever these letters are so pronounced. The cerebrals are in italics, ¢ ¢ 7; the 4 of the aspirate is separated from the stop letter by a bar, as in Sir William Jones’s system (4, 4, ch, 2). Gilchrist uses k for #, not e, as is done by Jones, so that with the former @ is 4, 4, not c 4. For & again he never employs ¢ or «. His system, whatever may be its faults, bas at least the merit of consistency.