Mar. 30. 1850.] 
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359 
mining this astounding date a little closely, I soon 
perceived that the two middle strokes had a slight 
curvature, a tendency to approach the shape of an 
S, which distinguished them from the two exterior 
lines. The date was, in fact, 1551; yet, so small 
was the difference of the figures, that the mistake 
was really a pardonable one. 
Is your correspondent “ E. V.” acquainted with 
the History of Castle Acre Priory, published some 
years ago? If my memory fails me not, there is 
a date given in that work, as found inscribed on 
the plaster of the Priory wall, much more ancient 
than 1445. 
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merals, and probably of the ninth, from the 
ancient Egyptian hieratic and enchorial charac- 
ters, for the ordinals corresponding with those num- 
bers, ever been noticed by writers upon the history 
of arithmetical notation? The correspondence 
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given in the 4th vol. of Sir G. Wilkinson’s Ancient 
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