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endou&ted argument for the true ag@ of thoRmlckCateu^ 
darsy and the fixteen Rfimck Letters, us'd by their Anceftors 
in writing, and being more ancient than the Letters of 
inoft other Nations, efpecially European, as many as have 
been feen to this day : And thefe Letters he fays were for- 
merly rightly caird by the name of Golden Apples, kept by 
Jtlas, till he communicated them to Hercuks' And in 
anfwer^o thofe who pretend that the Runkk Letters were 
a late Invention, he proves that the Greeks did not only 
ufe the Letters of their Anceftors, b\it likewife took from 
them their common way of writing the fame in the flex- 
ures, or windings of Dragons or Serpents^ and often their 
common ways of Speaking. And to (hew that their An- 
ceftors neither received their Runes from thofe Goths, that 
came to them from Font Euxine ( as Conringius thought ) 
where, formerly, going from them, they had feated them- 
felves 5 nor from the Greeks, Latins, or Hebrews ^ he here 
prefents us with a Table of the Letters of all thefe People, 
in which he has caus'd to be fet down the Figure, Power, 
Order, Number, and Signification in numbring of each, 
which clearly fets before the Eye what difference or fimili- 
tude there is betwixt them : And concludes it as a certain 
and undoubted truth, that there is no Nation in the whole 
World, known to us, or heard of, which by unanfwer- 
able Reafons and Monuments now in being, is able to 
fliew, or produce Letters more ancient than theirs. On 
the contrary, he concludes the Greeks and Vhrnkhns to 
have receiv'd their Letters from them 5 Ancient Writers 
teftifying that Ops, in former Ages, carry'd the Rmick 
Letters, cut in Brafs, to the Greeks which the Author, in 
his firft Volume, has ftiewn to have been before the time 
of Mofes^ 
Speaking of Sepulchral Monuments, plac'd on Hillocks 
where Men were Buried, and having Dragons and Epi- 
taphs cut in thofe Monuments, the Treafures of the per- 
fons deceased being Buried with the Afhcs of them in the 
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