The quality of the sounds is rich, full, and varied.

They are not straitened and contracted as if produced in a narrow medium, but extending through a considerable register, range through a variety of intonations.

The letter L, almost impossible for those to pronounce, who have not acquired the pronunciation in their infancy, has nothing harsh in its sound.

The ear receives from it an impression similar to that which is made upon the fingers by the touch of a thick woolen velvet, rough, but at the same time, yielding.

The union of jarring consonants being rare, and the assonances easily multiplied, the same comparison might be employed to the ensemble of the effect produced by these idioms upon foreigners.