[132] It is commonly observed, that different climates, airs and aliments, do very much diversify the tone of the parts and muscles of human bodies; on some of which the modulation of the voice much depends. The peculiar moisture of one country, the drought of another (other causes from food, &c. concurring) extend or contract, swell or attenuate, the organs of the voice, that the sound made thereby is rendered either shrill or hoarse, soft or hard, plain or lisping, in proportion to that contraction or extension. And hence it is, that the Chinese and Tartars have some sounds in their language, that Europeans can scarcely imitate: And it is well known in Europe itself, that an Englishman is not able agreeably to converse with a stranger, even in one and the same Latin; nay, even in England, it is noted by Mr. Camden and Dr. Fuller, that the natives of Carleton Curlew in Leicestershire, by a certain peculiarity of the place, have the turn of their voice very different from those of the neighboring villages. [133] _JILD Teka_, thou art my son. Psalm ii. 7. [134] _MEREDUTH_ is the same with _Merad_, a British name. [135] It has this sound in most of the ancient tongues. [136] The armorial ensign of Carthage was a _horse_. [137] It is remarkable that the Germans pronounce this word _wollen_, and _woll_, like the Roman _volo_, pronounced _wolo_. Many old people in America retain this pronunciation to this day; I _woll_, or _wool_, for _will_. The Roman pronunciation of _v_ is still preserved in England and America; _veal_, weal; _vessel_, wessel; and _w_ is often changed into _v_ or _f_; _wine_, vine, or even fine. The Romans often pronounced _t_ where we use _d_; as _traho_, draw. [138] In teaching English to a Spaniard, I found that in attempting to pronounce words beginning with _w_, he invariably began with the sound of _gu_; _well_, he would pronounce _guell_. [139] This word is found in most of the branches of the Gothic. [140] Allusive to the ancient custom of pardoning by giving permission to depart. [141] Frontier settlement; so called, because the Romans _passed thro_ this territory, in going to or from Rome. [142] The French and Spanish rarely or never aspirate an _h_; and in this word they have omitted it mostly in writing. [143] The above specimen of the ancient Irish is judged to be a thousand years old. See O'Conner's Dissertation on the History of Ireland. Dublin, 1766, 8 vo. [144] Feichneinibh. [145] "Hunc sonum (gh) Anglos in vocibus _light_, _might_, &c. olim protulisse sentio; at nunc dierum, quamvis scripturam retineant, sonum tamen fera penitus omittunt. Boreales tamen, presertim Scoti, fere adhuc retinent seu potius ipsius loco sonum _b_ substituunt."----Wallis. [146] The Runic excepted. The Runic letters were sixteen in number, and introduced very early into the North; but they went into disuse about the tenth or eleventh century. [147] _BENJAMIN is son of the right hand._ [148] Their.