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sounds for the same symbol, is foreign to the character of those 

 languages, which write in accordance with pronunciation, and 

 which are hardly acquainted with historical orthography, as the 

 French and English have now got it, (or the mode of writing 

 words arbitrarily, and as not pronounced.) 



14. I will now observe succinctly on the s in the name of 

 Lysjias. In As. Trans. Vol. iv. PI. xxvi. No. 12, we find X f° r 

 s; the y which follows it, which Mr. Prinsep believed to be a 

 t, is indistinct ; so also upon the copy, R. R. II. 8 : both repre- 

 sentations by Mr. Masson (As. Tran. Vol. in. PL ix. No. J 5 

 No. 6) furnish only a scrawl, at which however, nobody will 

 much hesitate ; with R. R. I. is distinctly the character V? there is 

 here indeed no trace of an i, and we had to read Lisajo. Mr. 

 Grotefend renders the y, by reading Lisio, i. But I have al- 

 ready previously stated, that we must here expect an i, and we 

 may indeed take the character in the As. Trans, so, as still to 

 preserve the trace of that letter. For by comparing si in the 

 name of Philoxenos, it appears, that in y the i crosses the 

 triangle; upon the coins, (As. Trans. Vol. iv. PL xxi. No. 

 1 and 2, a \ viz. si) twice before no, the difference being, that in 

 course of time the triangular character has taken an open form, 

 R. R. II. No. 5, is well preserved, and has V* I therefore adopt 

 also V as the perfect character upon the coin of Lysias. 



I must prove hereafter, that y is probably a sh (sch. ^r.) 



(To be continued.) 



