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NEW ART OF MEMORY.
"Remarks on the alphabetical Table."
| o to huh | It is endeavoured to give the alphabet a more natural order; beginning first with the simple sounds formed by the breath, with none or very little help of tongue, teeth, and lips, and produced chiefly in the windpipe. | |
| g. k. | Then coming forward to those formed by the roof of the tongue next to the windpipe. | |
| r. n. t. d. | Then to those, formed more forward, by the forepart of the tongue, against the roof of the mouth. | |
| l. s. z. | Then those formed still more forward in the tongue, applied first to mouth, by the tip of the the roots of the upper teeth. | |
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Then to those formed by the tip of the tongue, applied to the ends or edges of the upper teeth. | |
| f. v. | Then to those formed still more forward, by the under lip applied to the upper teeth. | |
| b. p. | Then to those formed yet more forward, by the upper and under lip opening to let out the sounding breath. | |
| m. | And lastly, ending with the shutting up of the mouth, or closing the lips while any vowel is sounding. |
It is impossible for want of proper types to give a specimen here of the Doctor's reformed mode of spelling; but several examples may be seen in the 3rd vol. of his works, p. 357, in which is inserted a correspondence which was
