( 117 ) Numb, xio. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIO NS. 
For the Month of May, 16^4. 
the CONTENTS. 
I. ^ Letter from Monfieur N. Witftn to Dr. Martin 
XJL Lifter, S. R. S. with two Draughts of the Ruins 
of Perfepolis. II. Dr. Gwither'j Difcourfe of Phyfiogno- 
my, communicated ly Mr. Owen Lloydj Secretary of the 
Philofophical Society at Dublin. III. A Continuation ^f 
Mr.]o\\n Chytons Account of y\Y^mi^; giving a fhort 
Defcription of ^kBeafts and Serpents thereof IV. Me- 
thodus Nova, Accurata & facilis inveniendi Radices 
quationum quarumcumque generaliter, fine praevia Re- 
duftione. Per Edm. Halley, 
1. A Letter from Monfeeur N. Witfen to Dr. Mar- 
tin Lifter, rvith tn?o Draughts of the Famous 
Perfepolis. 
TH I S Ingenious and Inquifitive Gentleman ha- 
ving already often obliged the World with Com- 
munications of his Difeoveries, lately fent the follow- 
ing Letter with the Draughts to Dr. Lijler^ who was 
pleafed to permit their Publication in thefe Trafts : The 
greatnefs of theCuriofity we hope will recommend 
them to the Lovers of Antiquity , little of thofe Fa- 
mous Remains having been yet publilht, and thofe that 
have been, but ill defigned or graved. Monfieur Wit^ 
fens Letter, tranflated from the French^ is as follows. 
