or tranquillus from trans and quietus, happen to double an l, must we forever cling to the reduplication, and that, in spite of our own rules to the contrary?  Why is it more objectionable to change pupillaris to pupilary, than pupillus to pupil? or, to change tranquillitas to tranquility, than tranquillus to tranquil?  And since papilous, pupilage, and tranquilize are formed from the English words, and not directly from the Latin, why is it not as improper to write them with double l, as to write perilous, vassalage, and civilize, in the same manner?

OBS. 14.—­If the practice of the learned would allow us to follow the English rule here, I should incline to the opinion, that all the words which I have mentioned above, ought to be written with single l.  Ainsworth exhibits the Latin word for coral in four forms, and the Greek word in three.  Two of the Latin and two of the Greek have the l single; the others double it.  He also spells “coraliticus” with one l, and defines it “A sort of white marble, called coraline.” [120] The Spaniards, from whose medalla, we have medal; whose argil[121] is arcilla, from the Latin argilla; and to whose cavilar, Webster traces cavil; in all their derivatives from these Latin roots, metallum, metal—­coralium, corallium, curalium, or corallum, coral—­crystallus or crystallum, crystal—­pupillus, pupil—­and tranquillus, tranquil—­follow their own rules, and write mostly with single l:  as, pupilero, a teacher; metalico, metalic; corolina (fem.) coraline; cristalino, crystaline; crystalizar, crystalize; traquilizar, tranquilize; and tranquilidad, tranquility.  And if we follow not ours, when or how shall the English scholar ever know why we spell as we do?  For example, what can he make of the orthography of the following words, which I copy from our best dictionaries:  equip’, eq’uipage; wor’ship, wor’shipper;—­peril, perilous; cavil, cavillous;[122]—­libel, libellous; quarrel, quarrelous;—­opal, opaline; metal, metalline;[123]—­coral, coralliform; crystal, crystalform;—­dial, dialist; medal, medallist;—­rascal, rascalion; medal, medallion;—­moral, moralist, morality; metal, metallist, metallurgy;—­civil, civilize, civility; tranquil, tranquillize, tranquillity;—­novel, novelism, novelist, novelize; grovel, grovelling, grovelled, groveller?

OBS. 15.—­The second clause of Murray’s or Walker’s 5th Rule for spelling, gives only a single l to each of the derivatives above named.[124] But it also treats in like manner many hundreds of words in which the l must certainly be doubled.  And, as neither “the Compiler,” nor any of his copiers, have paid any regard to their own principle, neither their doctrine nor their practice