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Dr. Kennedy Bailie's reply was : that his sole concern, at 

 present, was the literature of inscriptions ; that therefore he 

 felt not at liberty to venture any observation on either the 

 style or the accuracy of the reverend gentleman's volumes, 

 excepting so far as related to that subject ; and that he was 

 bound in candour to confess, that the form in which his col- 

 lection of inscriptions has been offered to the public is not 

 one on which any reader could rely as a scholar-like repre- 

 sentation of the original monuments. 



The inscriptions of the Turkish town of Kirgagatch and 

 Cotyaion, next occupied the author's attention. The first 

 of these, three in number, comprised an honorary titulus, in 

 favour of Hadrian, inscribed on a block of marble, which was 

 most probably brought from Stratonicea. Secondly, a de- 

 cree of the senate and people of that city in honour of Dio- 

 dorus Philometor, son of Nicander, in consideration of his 

 public services. Thirdly, a dedication of a church, in the 

 age of the Lower Empire, or what appears to have been 

 such, for the characters had been very much effaced. 



Of these the author read a detailed account, and stated 

 his reasons for supposing that the more ancient tituli had 

 been brought from Stratonicea in Caria, thus establishing 

 some connexion between that site and the Turkish town. 

 This is the more remarkable, inasmuch as there exist no 

 architectural remains in Kirkagatch to lead to the supposition 

 that it occupied any known ancient site. 



Two inscriptions from Kutaiah (Cotyaion) concluded the 

 series, both of which were copied from grave-stones in the 

 Armenian cemetery. They were sepulchral tituli, and the 

 stones themselves, on which they were engraved, most pro- 

 bably fragments of Sarkophagi. 



The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Hunter, presenting 

 to the Academy three mathematical works, by the Nuwab 

 Shums-ool-oomrah of Hyderabad. 



