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the most clear manner the theory which I have 
advanced, and of the truth of which I am about 
to submit ocular proof. 
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The above, Figure 13, is a faithful representa- 
tion of three capital primitive Greek alphabetic 
characters, in the formation of whose details 
the elementary arrow-head is most marked and 
strikingly evident, any one of them being capable 
of resolution into its primitive element, namely, 
the single arrow-head, which, I trust, is so evident 
as to require but little proof otherwise than that 
of ocular demonstration. I shall beg to draw 
attention to what appears to me to be the most 
clear and important evidence in respect to the 
relationship existing between these Greek letters 
and their Babylonian prototypes. What I allude 
