Reflection on the Words that end in

ed

, I have heard in Conversation from one of the greatest Genius's this Age has produced

[3]

. I think we may add to the foregoing Observation, the Change which has happened in our Language, by the Abbreviation of several Words that are terminated in

eth

, by substituting an

s

in the room of the last Syllable, as in

drowns, walks, arrives