a borough town of the county of Kent, in the parish of Saltwood, in the hundred of Horne, sixty-seven miles from London. It is one of the Cinque Ports, and as such returns one member to the House of Commons, who is chosen by about 420 voters. It consists chiefly of one long and well-built street, parallel to the shore, about a mile from the sea. In a vault under the church is a vast collection of dry human bones, which, according to tradition, are the remains of a great battle fought here between the Danes and the Britons antecedent to the Norman conquest. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1365, in 1811 to 2318, in 1821 to 2181, and in 1831 to 2287. I, or i, the ninth letter and third vowel of the alphabet, is pronounced by throwing the breath suddenly against the palate, as it comes out of the larynx, with a small hollowing of the tongue, and nearly the same opening of the lips as in pronouncing a or e. Its sound varies; in some words it is long, as high, mind; in others short, as bid, hid, sin; in others again, it is pronounced like y, as in collier, onion; and in a few it sounds like ee, as in machine, magazine, and the like. No English word ends in i, e being either added to it, or else the i turned into y. But besides the vowel, there is the jod consonant, which, because of its different pronunciation, has likewise a different form, thus, J, j. In English it has the soft sound of g; nor is it used excepting when g soft is required before vowels, where g is usually hard. Thus we say, jack, jet, join, instead of gack, get, goin, which would be contrary to the genius of the English language.

I, used as a numeral, signifies one, and stands for as many units as it is times repeated; thus I, one, II, two, III, three; and when put before a higher numeral, it subtracts itself, as IV, four, IX, nine, and so on. But when placed after it, as many are added to the higher numeral as there are I's added. Thus, VI, is $5 + 1$, or six; VII, $5 + 2$, or seven; VIII, $5 + 3$, or eight. The ancient Romans likewise used IO for 500, CIO for 1000, CIIO for 5000, CCICIO for 10,000. Further than this they did not go in their notation, but, when necessary, repeated the last number, as CCICICIO, CCICICICIO, for 200,000; CCICICICIO, CCICICICICIO, for 300,000; and so on. The ancients sometimes changed i into u; as decimus for decimius; maximus for maximus, and so on. According to Plato, the vowel i is proper to express delicate but humble things, as in the verse of Virgil:

Accipiant minimeum imbreem, rimisque fatiscunt.

I, used as an abbreviation, is often substituted for the word Jesus, of which it is the first letter.