The convention used for these marks is: Macron (straight line over letter)

By "MAORI" 1878 [Note: Some words in this book have a macron over a vowel.

A macron is a punctuation mark ( - ) and is represented herein as [=a], [=e] or [=o].] PREFACE.

Special characters: vowels with macrons are rendered with an equals sign (=) before the vowel.

[=] The MACRON, or MACROTONE, is used to denote either the open, long, primal sound of a vowel, or a syllable of long quantity; as, l=ive, having life,r=a'ven, a bird,=e'qu=ine, of a horse.

"In prosody, long syllables are distinguished by the macron (¯); and short ones by what is called the breve (~)."Bucke cor.

The name breve, from the French brève, (which latter word came, doubtless, originally from the neuter of the Latin adjective brevis, short,) is now pretty generally applied to the one; and the Greek term macron, long, (also originally a neuter adjective,) is perhaps as common as any name for the other.

By some, the Macron is improperly called "a Dash;" as by Lennie, p. 137; by Bullions, p. 157; by Hiley, p. 123; by Butler, p. 215.

Sanborn calls it "the hyphen, or macron.

On account of the different uses made of the breve, the macron, and the accents, one grammarian has proposed a new mode of marking poetic quantities.

Here is the golden fleecethe Duke's Sword MACRON.

document: [A.] Letter with dot below [.A] Letter with dot above [=A] Letter with macron above [.)]

[Transcriber's Note: [=a] is representing a-macron, unicode character U0101, and [=A] is representing A-macron, unicode character U0100.

[Transcriber's Note: [=a] is representing a-macron, unicode character U0101, and [=A] is representing A-macron, unicode character U0100.

This is usually pronounced as a long a. There are around 240 instances of vowels accented with macrons (straight line above), mostly A-macron or a-macron, with one instance of e-macron, and five instances of u-macron, and one u that should be u-macron(Dao[=u]b) and isn't (Daoub).

This is usually pronounced as a long a. There are around 240 instances of vowels accented with macrons (straight line above), mostly A-macron or a-macron, with one instance of e-macron, and five instances of u-macron, and one u that should be u-macron(Dao[=u]b) and isn't (Daoub).

This is usually pronounced as a long a. There are around 240 instances of vowels accented with macrons (straight line above), mostly A-macron or a-macron, with one instance of e-macron, and five instances of u-macron, and one u that should be u-macron(Dao[=u]b) and isn't (Daoub).

This is usually pronounced as a long a. There are around 240 instances of vowels accented with macrons (straight line above), mostly A-macron or a-macron, with one instance of e-macron, and five instances of u-macron, and one u that should be u-macron(Dao[=u]b) and isn't (Daoub).

This is usually pronounced as a long a. There are around 240 instances of vowels accented with macrons (straight line above), mostly A-macron or a-macron, with one instance of e-macron, and five instances of u-macron, and one u that should be u-macron(Dao[=u]b) and isn't (Daoub).

Use of the macron is not consistent throughout the text... ...and the spelling of some place names is not consistent either: e.g. Toorkisth[=an]; Toorkisthan; Toorkistan.

In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: - vowels with macrons = vowel + 'n' or 'm' - q;

[Transcriber's Note: [=O] represents O with macron, [=o] represents o with macron, [=u] represents u with macron] PREFACE About ten years ago, while spending a few days under the hospitable roof of the distinguished Belgian jurist, the lamented M. de Laveleye, our conversation turned, during one of our rambles, to the subject of religion.

[Transcriber's Note: [=O] represents O with macron, [=o] represents o with macron, [=u] represents u with macron] PREFACE About ten years ago, while spending a few days under the hospitable roof of the distinguished Belgian jurist, the lamented M. de Laveleye, our conversation turned, during one of our rambles, to the subject of religion.

[Transcriber's Note: [=O] represents O with macron, [=o] represents o with macron, [=u] represents u with macron] PREFACE About ten years ago, while spending a few days under the hospitable roof of the distinguished Belgian jurist, the lamented M. de Laveleye, our conversation turned, during one of our rambles, to the subject of religion.

For vowels with a macron: [=a], [=e], [=i], [=o], [=u].