OF THE ARRUW-HEADED CHARACTER. 513 
facts, admitting of ocular and tangible demonstra- 
tion, that I am the more anxious that a line should 
be drawn by my readers between what is merely 
a conjecture founded on probability, and that 
which is derived from undoubted historical facts, 
and capable of proof, by reference to the aetual 
bricks themselves, in which the mark of the style 
is as distinct as if it had been the production of a 
few weeks since, in place of upwards of 4000 
years! for proof of which refer to Fig. 6. 
Il now come to what appears to me to be 
the most truly interesting portion of my paper, 
namely, the proving that the Babylonian arrow- 
head character is the prototype or original form 
from which the Greek alphabet is derived; and 
hence, as a matter of historical sequence, that 
also of the Roman and British capital alphabet, in 
the form of whose letters I expect to show my 
readers that there still exists the evident remains 
of its Babylonian origin ! 
It was while engaged in the rapid investigation 
of the manner in which the arrow-headed character 
had been produced, and its general nature and 
capabilities, that the idea occurred to me that I 
might have some light thrown upon the historical 
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