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XXIII. A Letter containing some Remarks on an erroneous Reading of a 
sentence in the Cufie Inscription on a Grave-stone brought from Dhalac-el- 
Kibeer, and described in the second volume of the Transacrions of the 
Roya Asiatic Society. By Graves C. Haveuton, Esq., M.A.; F.R.S., 
Secretary to the Socrery. 
Read 20th of April, 1833. 
To Henry Tuomas Corrsrooxe, Esqg., F.R.S., F.S.A., Director of the 
Royal Asiatic Society, &c. &c. Se. 
London, 10th of April 1833. 
Sir: 
Since the publication of my translation of a grave-stone, written in Cyfic 
characters, and printed in the last volume of the Transactions of the 
Society, my attention has been drawn by friends to the fact, that the words 
in the thirteenth line, which I had read 4S)\ sus , “praise be to God,” 
should really be a)\ 4+, “ May God have mercy upon her.” As this last 
reading is the right one, I beg leave, through your kindness, to make it 
known ; for the error, though of no great importance to the general import 
of the inscription, deserves to be noticed. 
By a reference to my remarks on the subject of the stone,* it will be 
seen that 1 was then struck at the apparent deviation in the particular 
formulary expression which I took it to be. In decyphering the stone, I 
had not only to contend with the disadvantageous light in which it was 
placed; but the ground and letters being of the same uniform colour, and 
the writing in such low-relief as scarcely to be obvious to the touch, the 
difficulty of tracing it out may be easily imagined. The practised eye of 
the artist, however, who, besides the choice of light, had only to trace the 
forms of the letters without attending to the sense, succeeded in discovering 
and delineating that which my less perfect vision was unable to distinguish. 
* Page 577 of vol. IJ. 
