language as arbitrary roots. So that from this apparently simple symbol, from the extension of the three general ideas-incurvation, restriction, smiting or infixing, is constructed more than a fourth part of the whole language.

In a similar manner, as we have before observed, do other significants communicate their imports to the biliterals and triliterals which are derived from them. But the great length to which this paper has already been extended, obliges us to reserve, for some other communication, all remarks respecting them. I may briefly observe, that the same simplicity of structure which has been traced out in the formation of biliteral and triliteral derivatives of the bow letter, is also seen in the construction of those biliterals and triliterals which derive their origin and their import from other significants. And I may remark, that the analysis, of which the preceding pages afford a cursory specimen, is not offered to the notice of the public as an example of ingenuity, or of fanciful speculation, but as something which, I think, approaches very nearly to truth and correctness. Those who can form an estimate of the labour and difficulty which attend a general and particular analysis of the whole of a primitive language, and especially an analysis, in the conduct of which no assistance has been derived from any other source than that of repeated comparisons of each word with other words, will not too severely scan those inaccuracies which further emendation may correct.

[A specimen of the analysis (comprising the derivatives of the four palatine significants, J, P, 1, 7,) is, in manuscript, in the bands of the Editor of this Journal, and it may be examined by any one who feels interested on the subject of language in general, or of the Hebrew language in particular. With regard to the latter language, I may state, that the analysis to which this paper refers, exhibits the whole of this language under a simple arrange

ment, which will enable any one to acquire a thorough knowledge of it in a very short time with little or no labour, and will furnish an easy guide through the labyrinths of etymology in general. There is nothing in it which can tend, in the slightest degree, to obscure or mysticise the contents of the sacred volume; on the contrary, it simplifies greatly the study of the Scriptures in that original language in which they ought to be studied, while it tends to confirm most strongly the faith of the believer, and to illustrate the divine origin of our holy religion.]

THE

DIFFICULTIES OF ROMANISM

IN REGARD TO THE

Claim of Xnfallibility.

FROM FABER'S DIFFICULTIES OF ROMANISM.-Book I. Chapter II.