360 
for the word corresponding to the compound epithet, wysada- 
hyésh, in Du, were only in part legible; and the manner of 
writing the name Ormusd in the inscription H, and that of 
Artaxerxes on the vase at Venice, could only be explained by 
supposing the sculptors to have committed errors. All these 
for tu or du; thename in N Ru, answering to Harautish, and 
difficulties, and others connected with the first inscription of the 
East India Company, have been removed by an important rec- 
tification, or series of rectifications, which I have made during 
the past fortnight; and the language has, moreover, been 
brought to exhibit a much greater similarity to the other Se- 
mitic ones than I had at first supposed. I have, therefore, to 
request leave to substitute the alphabet which I now send for 
that in my last paper. As the correspondence between the 
cursive and lapidary characters in the plate to that paper is 
correctly given, though the values of many of the characters 
are erroneous, and as the plate is, I believe, partly engraved, 
I propose to let it stand, with so much of the paper as is neces- 
sary for understanding it; but the transcriptions of Babylo- 
nian words into Roman characters, and the catalogue of 
Babylonian words, will be superseded by those which follow, 
which are much more correct. In the plate which 1 now 
send I give no lapidary characters, but instead thereof I give 
many additional Persepolitan ones; and at the foot of it I 
give a series of numbers from the rock inscription at Van, ex- 
hibiting the mode of expressing numbers in Cuneatie charac- 
ters on to 100,000. These are so arranged as to require no 
comment; but it may be proper to state that the large num- 
bers are those of men belonging to different nations which are 
named ; and I presume they refer to the deportation of these 
nations, according to the Assyrian practice. The historic 
character of these inscriptions, of which I received a copy 
very recently, is obvious.” 
The President made a few remarks upon the present state 
of the researches connected with Persepolitan writing, and 
