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who was kind enough to allow it to be taken
from a model in his possession.

For the more complete illustration of the text,

he has availed himself of several notes by the
Rev. G. C. Renouard, which were attached to
papers inserted in the Journal of the Royal Geo­

graphical Society. The mode of spelling Arabic

proper names, adopted throughout, is also that
*
advocated by the same gentleman who has re­
duced Oriental orthography to a fixed standard,

as far as those papers are concerned. Each

letter has invariably its corresponding equivalent.
The consonants are sounded as in English ; the
vowels as in Italian; the accents mark long

vowels, and an apostrophe [’] the letter ’ain. Gh

and hh are strong gutturals; the former often
resembling the Northumbrian r, the latter the
Welsh and Gaelic ch. A, e, i, o, are to be

respectively pronounced as in far, there, ravine,

and cold ; u as in rude, or oo in fool; ei' as ey
in they ; ou as ow in fowl; ai as i in thin ; ch as
in child.

* Vol. vi. p. 51.