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lhat city (3 j). On the Greek brafs coins of Sidon, 
according to F. Frcelich (36), both tliefe epochs feetn 
than, prince and high-pried of the Jews ; and therefore have by 
no means endeavoured, as he would infinuate, to rob him of the 
glory of fuch a difcovery. 
3. As M. 1 ’Abbe in effed owns himfelf to have feen my diflerta- 
tton, and has (if M. Brucker rightly informed me) fince the readino- 
of his memoir, fubftituted my notion, relating to the words! 
AAEHANAPOT, in the room of his own; fome peo- 
ple may perhaps imagine, that I have at leaft as much reafon to 
recriminate on this occafton, as he had to charge me with the adop- 
tl ° n °rwr^ S ex P^ cat j on * Nay, as he exprefly acquaints the public, 
that M. Brucker imparted to me the very interpretation of the 
coin he (M. l’Abbe) had before communicated to him, and as 
this interpretation moft evidently makes it to have been firft ftruck 
in the reign of Alexander the Great; every unprejudiced perfon, 
unacquainted with the elevated genius and extenfive erudition of 
M. l’Abbe, will be ftrongly induced to believe, that there would 
be no great injuftice in a recrimination. But far be it from me to 
retort the accufation upon M. l’Abbe. His uncommon learning 
his Angular modefty, his Arid honour, his utter contempt of vanity 
and oftentation in every fhape, fo confpicuous to all the world, 
mult fet him infinitely above the reach of fuch an imputation. 
However, notwithftanding the fuperior merit and exalted abilities 
of M. l’Abbe, notwithftanding the known averfion of the French 
writers to the pradice here hinted at, and their moft generous and 
candid treatment hitherto of thofe belonging to the Britifh nation, 
it will perhaps hereafter be thought expedient, by the Academy 
of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, not frequently to 
fuffei- an interval of feven years to elapfe, between the reading and 
publication of their memoirs. For by fuch unaccountable delays, 
if Oiten repeated, a handle may poflibly be given to many of the 
haughty ijlanders of refleding upon, or at leaft entertaining unfa- 
vourable fentiments of, fome of the members of that illuftrious 
body. 
See De Num. quibufd. Sam. & Pbcen. DiJJiri. p. 61 72. 
Oxon. 1750. / 
( 35 ) Hemic. Nor. Veronenf. An. et Epoch. Syrcmaccd. &c. p. 
414 — 424. Lipfiae, 1696. 
(36) Erafm. Frcel. Annal. Compend, Reg. et Rcr. Syr. p. 113. 
Vienna?, 1754. 
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