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vowels in place of four, and six forms of simple syllables in 
place of seven. The existence of four vowels, a, 7, u, and one 
equivalent to the first Sanscrit vowel, or Hebrew Sheva mobile, 
is here maintained, and of a class of syllables which it termi- 
nates. 
All the characters which represent syllables that cannot 
be resolved into more simple ones, are then exhibited with 
their values. They are arranged in the order of the letters of 
the Hebrew alphabet ; six vowels, which may be considered as 
the Aleph series, heading the list; then seven, in which Beth 
predominates, and so to the end. After the leading value of 
each character is given, its secondary phonetic value or values, 
if it have any, and also its ideographic values, are stated, 
The characters thus enumerated are in number 115, to which 
153 phonetic values are attached. With respect to 91 of 
these values, Dr. Hincks and Colonel Rawlinson are perfectly 
agreed ; and of these Dr. Hincks claims to have been the first 
to publish the values of 66, the other 25 having been first 
published by Colonel Rawlinson. As to 42 values, they dif- 
fer; but the difference for the most part arises from Colonel 
Rawlinson not admitting the short vowel, which Dr. Hincks 
supposes to terminate certain syllables. Finally, there are 20 
new values given, as to which Colonel Rawlinson has said no- 
thing. 
Dr. Hincks is acquainted with more than 60 other values 
of characters which do not represent elementary syllables, 
which he has not been able to arrange in the present paper, 
but which he hopes to arrange before long. 
An appendix is added, containing a modification of the 
chronological system of the former paper. The Khorsabad 
King was not called Khinnilin, and could not have been the 
Chinzirus of the Canon. He was not Lord paramount of Ba- 
bylon, but after his twelfth year its immediate hing. He was 
the Sargon of Isaiah; and Dr. Hincks supposes him to have 
been the Arkianus of the Canon of Ptolemy. His predecessor, 
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