XIV INTRODUCTION.

Arabic words spelled various ways by the same author (I have committed the same error myself) ; but in the following work 1 have adopted a plan to correct this prevailing error in Oriental orthography, which, I think, ought to be followed by every Oriental scholar, as the only correct way of transcribing them in English ; viz. by writing them exactly according to the original Arabic orthography, substituting gr (not gh as Richardson directs) for the Arabic guttural c grain, and hh for the guttural k ox ;l., — Note, We should be careful not to copy the orthography of Oriental or African names from the French, which has too often been done, although their pronunciation of European letters is very dissimilar from our own.