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SECT I. 



Observations and Queries respecting Learning, 

 Antiquities, religious Rites, polite Arts, £$c. 



Ingenuous arts, where they an entrance find, 

 Soften the manners, and fubdue the mind*. 



1. HPHE alphabets of the various nations, their 

 * pronunciation and numeric value, with 

 their numeric figures, if different from the letters 

 of the alphabet, and books written in each lan- 

 guage, efpecially grammars, dictionaries, Sec. with 

 the dates of each when written, merit the invefti- 

 gation of the curious ; likewife the materials uftd 

 for writing, and their preparation, as the methods 

 of making ink, paper, and pens, and of fizing and 

 gluing the paper ; the art of printing, and the 

 contrivances for doing it. 



2. Manufcripts, in good prefervation, of the 

 Hebrew Bible, or parts thereof, particularly if 

 upwards of 300 years old. 



3. Books containing the religious principles of 

 any nation or people, and which ufually are 

 written in a diale6t different from that which fuch 

 people now fpeak, or in a poetical, high meta- 

 phorical ftyle, and therefore underftood by few 

 only, and for the moft part kept very fecret ; 



♦ Ingenuas didicifie fideliter artes 



Emollit mores, nec finit efle feros. 



Ovid. Pont, 



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