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SECT. I. 



Obfervations and Queries refpeSling Learning, 

 Antiquities, Religious Rites, polite Arts, 

 &c. 



Ingenuous arts, where they an entrance find, 

 Soften the manners, and fubdue the mind *» 



i. rjIHE alphabets of the various nations, 

 I their pronunciation and numeric value, 

 with their numeric figures, if different from the 

 letters of the alphabet, and books written in 

 each language, efpecially grammars, dictiona- 

 ries, &c. with the dates of each when written, 

 merit the invefligation of the curious ; like wife 

 the materials ufed for writing, and their pre- 

 paration, as the methods of making ink, paper, 

 and pens, and of fizing and glewing the paper ; 

 the art of printing, and the contrivances for 

 doing it. 



2. Manufcripts, in good prefer vation, 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 diale<ft different from that which 

 fuch people now fpeak, or in a poetical, high 

 metaphorical ftyle, and therefore underltood 

 by few only, and for the mo ft pari: kept very 

 lecret; amongft thefe we may enumerate the 

 Chartah Bhade Shalt of Bramah, the Chartah 



* Tngenuas didiciffe fideliter artes 



Emollit mores, nec iinit efle feros. 



Ovid. Pont. 



F 2 Bhade 



