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nations and cafes would not be fo entirely foreign from the 

 ancient. 1 cannot, therefore, doubt, efpecially when J compare it 

 with the language I heard fpoken by all the crew, and when I 

 mention that I faw the log-book of the fhij) written in Greek 

 which I could underftand, that this is a fpecimen of modern 

 Greek : the dates and days of the month in the log-book differed 

 from the ancient Greek in the fmalleft circumftance only, thus the 

 1 8th of January was lanxpiv cySoeKxrij, inftead of ozto kxi SeKocTv;, 

 I have another of thefe letters in my pofT^'flion much longer, with 

 which I therefore have not troubled the Academy. I fliall conclude 

 with obferving, that thefe modern G-reeks always for accents ufed 

 the word O^sa;, thereby confirming the opinion that there is pro- 

 perly no accent but the acute, the grave being the negative of 

 accent ; and we mufl remember that the word w^oiruSioii, in the an- 

 cient Greek language, is the term ufed for accents : which word, 

 when tranflated into Latin, is accentus or ad cantus, implying 

 elevation of voice, or a kind of fong, fuperadded or raifed on the 

 common tone of the voice, and cannot apply to the grave, which 

 is negation of any departure from the ufual level. 



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