Excerpt from United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 The introduction of these letters has been rendered necessary by the principle on which the alphabet is constructed, and could not have been avoided without great incon venience and the use of many diacritical points. It is possible that characters preferable, in some respects, to those selected, might be suggested. These, however, have been tested by use, and found sufficient for their purpose. And it should be remembered that any new characters whatsoever must, at first, from their very strangeness, have an uncouth and somewhat repulsive appearance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.