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Caudeo tamen mihijam novum adejfe mmus^ 

 quod tecum queam impertire voleme fpero^ & 

 ixto. Id efi Epigrapharum Sylioge^ quas a co-- 

 lumnis Palmyrenis Charijfimus amicus^ Guliel- 

 mus Hallifaxius pulchro ftndio defcripftt. Vti^ 

 Tiam Syriaca plura ipfe addijfet fub Gr^cis^ & 

 Efocham Palmyrenam a Seleuco viiiore, non ab 

 Alexandri magni obitu incepijfet. HtftorU vera 

 Auguft^e fcriptores qui teruntur^ & Herodianus 

 <jrammaticus plerafque Infcriptionum iftarum 

 multumillufirant. V'erum ifibac vix funt nofiri 

 i>tii. Attamen ft h&c commiferis Philofbphica- 

 Tum Tranftftionum, tit nunc loquuntur^ condi^ 

 toribus hand injucundum 'Trep'TroiicL fuerit^ donee 

 "vir illuftris & adprime doBus D. Cuperus nbe-^ 

 riora forte ediderit de urbe Solomonis ejufque 

 ' rdiquiis. Vale vir venerabilis, 



Oxonix iVTi?^^;^ Odobribus 

 A. D. CIQIDCXCV. 



Reverend Sir^ 



HAving promifed you an Account of my 

 Voyage to Tadmor^ I cannot now Ex- > 

 cufe my felf from being as good as my Word^ 

 whatever Cenfure I may incur of having 

 mifpent my Mony and Time in fearch of 

 fuch unprofitable Curiofities j or what I more 

 fear, of having made fuch poor Improve- 

 ments, of which a Man of larger Reading 

 and Underllanding , might have aiForded 

 much greater Information. We departed A- 

 leppo on Alichaelmas'day^ 1691. and in fix ea- ^ 

 fie D.iys Travel over a Dcfart Country, came 



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