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vowels in place of four, and six forms of simple syllables in 

 place of seven. The existence of four vowels, a, i, u, and one 

 equivalent to the first Sanscrit vowel, or Hebrew Sheva mobile, 

 is here maintained, and of a class of syllables which it termi- 

 nates. 



All the characters which represent syllables that cannot 

 be resolved into more simple ones, are then exhibited with 

 their values. They are arranged in the order of the letters of 

 the Hebrew alphabet ; six vowels, which may be considered as 

 the Aleph series, heading the list ; then seven, in which Beth 

 predominates, and so to the end. After the leading value of 

 each character is given, its secondary phonetic value or values, 

 if it have any, and also its ideographic values, are stated. 

 The characters thus enumerated are in number 115, to which 

 153 phonetic values are attached. With respect to 91 of 

 these values, Dr. Hincks and Colonel Kawlinson are perfectly 

 agreed ; and of these Dr. Hincks claims to have been the first 

 to publish the values of 66, the other 25 having been first 

 published by Colonel Kawlinson. As to 42 values, they dif- 

 fer ; but the difference for the most part arises from Colonel 

 Kawlinson not admitting the short vowel, which Dr. Hincks 

 supposes to terminate certain syllables. Finally, there are 20 

 new values given, as to which Colonel Kawlinson has said no- 

 thing. 



Dr. Hincks is acquainted with more than 60 other values 

 of characters which do not represent elementary syllables, 

 which he has not been able to arrange in the present paper, 

 but which he hopes to arrange before long. 



An appendix is added, containing a modification of the 

 chronological system of the former paper. The Khorsabad 

 King was not called Khinnilin, and could not have been the 

 Chinzirus of the Canon. He was not Lord paramount of Ba- 

 bylon, but after his twelfth year its immediate king. He was 

 the Sargon of Isaiah; and Dr. Hincks supposes him to have 

 been the Arkianus of the Canon of Ptolemy. His predecessor, 



