For the Preface, Lift of Subfcribers, and Appendix, fee
Parts First and Second, Volume I. of the English and
Hindooftanee Dictionary. ·

THE CONTENTS OF PART THIRD, VOLUME I. OR THE

The Synopfis to face page 8, and to be folded properly in, fo as not to be injured
when the book is bound up, or the leaves are cut and trimmed; an accident that
has often happened already. --The Sketch of General Declenfion to front page
58, and the Orthometrical Table to be inferted oppofite to page 263. As the Horal Di-
agram and Hindu Ecliptick are marked, they can hardly require any other directions than
to fecure them properly in the binding, that they may neither be concealed, tear nor
be cut or fall out afterwards. The explanation for the latter must be neatly pafted on
the back of it, in fuch a way, that this last paper may be kept clear of the neceffary fold
in the Ecliptick, the top of which fhould be placed on the infide of the book, while
the other will appear as a common page of it.

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OF THE ELEMENTS.

O exhibit by extraneous characters, with propriety or fuccefs, any Language whatever, can hardly be expected; and as no lefs than three concur in the formation of the Hindoostanee, accumulated difficulties, with the failure of my philological predeceffours herein, have deterred me from exprefsing it by the Roman alone; with this therefore, befides taking fome indifpenfable liberties, I have regularly contrasted in my orthographical fynopfis below, its Arabic, Perfian, and Hinduwee correlatives; that every fcholar may have it in his power to collate the English letters with their feveral homogeneous prototypes, and, affifted by an expert moonfhee, correct my fyftem, wherever it is found to be anomalous, defective, erroneous, or redundant.

Το prove the neceffity of adopting fome fuch plan now, would only be repeating all that an elegant writer has already urged thereon, but which I had not the good fortune to meet with, till the publication of my Dictionary, in great measure, precluded from these sheets much of the instruction resulting from the only valuable and scientific differtation that I know, on this interefting fubject(a). Though the method of rendering Afiatic words here has been stu

(a) See Afiadic Refearches, Vol. I. page I.
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diously.

diously founded more on the Orthoepy, than Orthography, of their respective character and language, the latter hath nevertheless been treated with due attention on many occafions; to avoid, if poffible, the folid objections that may be started against the rigid adoption of either of thefe guides, to the entire exclufion of the other. Conformably to the first Afufool doulu (the prefent Nuwwab) ♫ kib that,

ونبر

Moofee Mofes موسی

unbur amber, •„„„ purduh a curtain, Stuqwee piety, fuloot prayer will ever be found, in the prefent work, thus, Afuf ood doulu (or Afu food doulu) umbur, purdu, ki, Mcofa, tuqwa, fulat; the natives invariably pronouncing them in this way, as nobody, furely, would distract a foreigner with colonel (kurnil) who barely wished to learn the oral denomination of a gentleman holding fuch a rank in our fervice; were more required, Sheridan could eafily be confulted, and the foregoing examples being alfo inserted in their original fymbols, the inquifitive reader is enabled at the fame time to acquire their actual orthography, fhould he be at all folicitous about it here, which, I imagine, will very feldom be the cafe. On the contrary, Y hawun (or huwan) a mortar, es fufeel a rampart, quoful a lock,

آزمایش ,ornament

arag آرایش

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will be found fo in the Dictionary; although by a general, but vitious, metathefis, they might be more familiarly written humam, fufeel, qooluf; and to prevent the introduction of heterogenous vowels in words like azma esh trial,, khood self, khoofb pleasant, * khoosh prefer this mode, to azmaish, khuuh, which may perhaps be a trifle nearer the true pronunciation, but would break in upon the fyftematical reftriction of e, to and i to ser: a folicitude that (fhould it lead me in one or two very trivial inftances, a little aftray,) will probably in the end conduce much to the learner's improvement, by preferving the general conformity between the primitive and typical letters exhibited in the fketch below. The above will tend to illuftrate the principles on which my fcheme is conducted; but to dwell longer upon it in this place, would be anticipating what properly belongs to the alphabet itself. I who fee the abfurdity of being wedded fo far to my own method, as to imagine it will ever be generally followed, naturally expect, that it must take the chance of being treated with the fame freedom, that has been ufed by myfelf with regard to others: an event rather to be wifhed for than deprecated, fince no