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or the other of them ; yet in every word they 

 are occasionally interchanged. 



+ is U long, and also V, if that consonant is 

 to be recognised at all. 



B and * are W, usually consonants, but oc- 

 casionally long vowels. In some words the one 

 letter is invariably used, in others they are inter- 

 changed. 



BB and do CP seem exact equivalents to the 

 Greek Q, and when so doubled appear identical. 

 . In two inscriptions, Nos. 26 and 31, the letter 

 SlG is used instead of \jy in the word ewuinu. If 

 the copies are correct, this shows great affinity 

 between the letters ; but two instances, set 

 against all other cases, will not prove their 

 identity. Unfortunately the copies of both in- 

 scriptions are faulty and imperfect, so that we 

 cannot rely upon them. 



The author must add two letters to the 

 alphabet, which are both of rare occurrence, and 

 were overlooked before. y is found on each 

 side of the great obelisk at Xanthus, less than 

 twenty times in all, and in less than ten distinct 

 words. It is doubtful if it occurs in any other 

 inscription, as in the few cases in which we 

 find it, it seems to be an imperfect copy of some 



