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the possession of the Earl of Besborough, Mr. S. procured a view of the stone, 

 examined the inscription with all the attention he was capable of, and took, the 

 exact transcript of it on the spot, and communicates the explanation of it in 

 Hebrew characters, with Latin and English versions. 



The inscription in Hebrew or Chaldee characters. 



JOVI FVLMINATORI IN AETERNVM sit REVEREN- 



mp K07J? KID yD» Vpa"? 

 TIA— OPERIMENTVM ET LECTVM 61 DEDICA- nVjnjS «tt^nri «n03 



VIT AGATHANGELVS. 



To Jupiter the thunderer for ever be reverence — agathangelvs dedi- 

 cated to him this covered bed. 



III. Of the Somersham IVater, in the County of Huntingdon. By Daniel 



Peter Layard, M. D. p. 10. 



From his experiments on this mineral water, Dr. L. infers that it " is a chaly- 

 beate water, strongly impregnated with the vitriol of iron and alum, and con- 

 taining some calcareous earth, selenites, and salt." 



On the Experiments made on the same Somersham fVater. By Michael Morris, 



M. D., F. R. S. p. 22. 



Dr. M. infers from his experiments, " that the contents of the Somersham 

 water are; 1° iron, i** selenite, 3" alum, 4° some marine salt, with a little 

 alum and vitriol in the state of an aqua magistra aluminis et vitrioli, incapable 

 of crystallization." 



If^. Of an Jnediied Coin of the Empress Crispina. Bp the Rev. John Swinton, 



B.D., F.R.S. p. 27. 



An inedited Greek coin of the empress Crispina, which seems to have had a 

 place formerly assigned it in the cabinet of the celebrated professor Ott, and 

 thence afterwards to have passed into that of his son, the late Reverend Mr. 

 Ott, some years since fell into Mr. S.'s hands. The medal is nearly of the size 

 of the middle Roman brass, and tolerably well preserved. The workmanship is 

 somewhat rude, and savours sufficiently both of the age and the remote province 

 in which it first appeared. On one side is exhibited the head of Crispina, wife 

 of the emperor Commodus, attended by the Greek legend KPlCnglNA CebaCth, 

 CRISPINA avgvsta; and on the reverse are two human figures, one sitting in a 

 chair, with a lance in its left hand, and the other standing by its side. They 

 are both surrounded by the inscription AAPAANOZIHNXIN, dardanossenorvm, 

 or dardanossensivm, which evidently points at the inhabitants of some ancient 

 town. Who the Dardanossenians were, or in what part of the world situated 

 Mr. S. will not take upon him to decide; the word AAPAANOSSA, dardanossa 



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