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of another ftanding near that of the Eaft, 

 which would incline one to think there was 

 once a continued row of them. The height 

 of this to the Eaft I took with my Quadrant^ 

 and conclude to be more than 42 Foot 

 high, and the Circumference proportionable* 

 Upon the Body thereof is the following In- 

 fcription. 



H BO YAH KAI O AHMOC AAIAAM£NA nANOT 

 MOKIMOT TOT AIPANOT TOT MA00A KAI 

 AIPANHN TON nAT£PA ATTOT £TC£B£IC 

 KAI <>IAOnATPIAAC KfAI) HANTI TPOHft? 

 (£TX^£IM^yC AP£CANTAC TH HATPIAI KAI 

 nATPIOlC 0£OIC'T£IMHC XAPIN £T0YC N 

 T a MHNOC HANAIKOT. 



I perfwade my felf it would be but loft 

 Labour to fpend time in making Refledions 

 upon this or the following Infcriptions ^ as 

 for the Knowledge they may exhibit to the 

 World , your own Conjectures will more 

 happily lead you unto it^ than any thing I 

 am like to fuggefl. It feems however pretty 

 evident they were a Free State, governed by 

 a Senate and People, though perhaps under 

 the Proteftion of great Empires, the Parthi^ 

 ansy it is probable, firft, and afterward the 

 Romans^ who for a long time contended for 

 the Maftery here in the Eaft. And this Go- 

 vernment might continue among them till a- 

 bout the time of Aurelian^ who demolifhed 

 the Place, and led Ze?jobia^ Wife of Odena^ 

 tm^ Captive to Rome : Who, though fhe be 

 called Queen, yet I find not that ever her 

 Husband had the Title of King j but was on- 



