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Thefe Monuments are mark’d with the ancient 
Northern Letters, called Runor (or Runic Cha- 
racters'). But there is one Province of North Sue - 
den , namely Helfingland , where five of thole Stones 
occur, which have Characters cut into them, that 
Teem to differ from the common Runic . Upon 
the Introduction of our modern Letters, thefe 
Runic Characters became To little regarded, that 
their Interpretation was loft even to the Anti- 
quarians of our Country till the Year 1674,; when 
-my Grandfather Magnus Celjins , then Profeftor of 
Aftronomy in the Univerilty of Up fat, revived their 
.Pleading, and drew up the following Alphabet of 
them, ranged after the manner of the Ancients. 
n 
l Ul 
p vc 
A 1 * * : . 
> • 
I V 
DORK hi N J 
A b T 13 L MR 
final 
There are but fixteen Letters, and the Words are 
.frequently diftinguilh’d either by three Points fet per- 
pendicularly over one another, or by two at Tome 
Diftance afunder. 
Among the feveral Alphabets hitherto known, 
it would be a hard Matter to find one like the 
foregoing 5 if we may not perhaps except the Cha- 
racters of the Rerfepolis Infcriptions, which have 
not as yet been decypher d. For the Letters ge- 
nerally made ufe of fignify different Sounds, accord- 
ing to their various Shapes: Whereas in this Alpha- 
bet the fame Character often denotes a different 
•Sound, according to the Diverfity of its Place and 
Attitude between the two Parallels. Thus a ftrait 
Stroke, 
