is no rule for spelling person' names) and if a name is not
spelt correctly when they are arranged alphabetically,
the name thus erroneously spelt will be put in the wrong
place, where a reader will not think of looking for it, and
Will conclude when he does not find it in its proper place,
that it is not in the book; and the name of a public man is
as liable to be omitted as that of an obscure one; when it
it known that many names pronounced alike, are spelt
quite differently, viz: Abot or Abbott, Aiken or Aitkin,
Bayly, Bailey, Bear, Baer, Bauer, Cain, Kain, Carr, Kerr,
Davis, Davies, Eagleston, Eggleston, Foster, Fowler,
German, Jerman, Hewes, Hughes, Isler, Iler, Johnson,
Johnston, Cane, Cain, Lawrence, Laurence, Matchett, Ma-
ehct, Neal, Neil, O'Laughlin, O'Laughlen, Pearce, Pierce,
Qusick, Quisick, Riley, Reilly, Sanders, Saunders, Thomp-
son, Tomsen, Uhler, Euler, Varden, Virden, Wulff, Wolf
Yeates, Yates, Ziegler, Sigler, X being the only letter
that does not furnish names pronounced alike and spelt
differently; in fact, almost every name used, will admit
of a difference in Orthography.

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