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dins exad and accurate Publication of the entire Work 
do not put^a period to all further Curiofity, which I 
heartily wifh. 
An ExaSt Draught or Copy of the fever al Cha- 
racters engraven in Marble at the Mount dins of 
Noftureftand and Chahelmtnar in Perfja, as 
they were tahgn in November i66j. By 
Mr. S. Flower. 
N* i. Nz. Thefe two Chara&ers are engraven on the 
Breaft of two Horfes cut out of the Mountain of Black 
Marble at Noftureffand, diftant a League from Cbahel- 
manure, or the ancient Perfepolis, one whereof is faid 
to be Alexanders, the other Ruflrams, (a Famous Hero 
fuppofed to have lived about the time of Camlyfes?) 
Mr. Fl. 
Ni. This Chara&er hath fome Similitude with the 
Ancient Hebrew, but the Perfians would have it their 
own, tho' they underftand not a Letter. Mr., F. 
iSf z. In thefe Lines the places are prickt where the 
Letters were defaced and not perceptible. Mr. F. 
N 4. Thefe two Lines were writ entire on Rufiraws 
Horfe. Mr. F 
N3, This is the [Aralick) Per fan Charadter engra- 
ven at Perfepolis not above joo years fince, and is little 
different from the Writing us'd at this day. Mr. F. 
N 5 . This Chara&er, whether it be the ancient Wri- 
ting of the Gaures or Gabres, or a kind of Tele fines is 
found only at Perfepolis, being a part of what is there 
engraven in white Marble, and is by no Man in Perfia 
legible or underftood at this Day. 
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