Excerpt from A Comparative Vocabulary of Forty-Eight Languages: Comprising One Hundred and Forty-Six Common English Words, With Their Cognates in the Other Languages, Showing Their Affinities With the English and Hebrew The above remarks are by Dr. Williams, of Canton, an American Missionary, who kindly procured this language for me. 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.