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myrene Pe , as it appears in (io) Mr. Dawkins’s al- 
phabet, that we may without fcruple afcribe to it the 
power of that letter. The fecond is fo like the Pal- 
myrene and the Chaldee Daleth (n), that it ought 
indubitably to pafs for that element. The third dif- 
fers fomething, tho’ not greatly (i 2), from one of 
the forms of the Palmyrene He. The fifth, which 
likewife occupies the eighth place, is by no means 
remote from the figures of the (13) Palmyrene and 
Chaldee Nun. The fixth occurred in the third place 
before. With regard to the feventh, it feems to me 
pretty flrongly to refemble fome forms of the Pal- 
myrene Mem (14), and even exactly to anfwer to 
that of the fame letter in ( 1 y) one of the Palmyrene 
infcriptions preferved amongfl thofe celebrated re- 
mains of antiquity commonly, tho’ perhaps improper- 
ly, filled The Ruins <?/'Persepolis. The ninth is the 
He touched upon before. The tenth, which alfo fuc- 
ceeded the third, if the powers of the other elements 
have been rightly determined, mull be Schin. Nor 
does this character, if we view it in a certain pofi- 
tion, appear very remote from a rude form of that 
letter. This legend then, according to what is here 
advanced, as it now remains, confifls of the words 
PADESHANE MONESH, PADESHAN 
(10) Philofoph. Tranfatl. Vol. xlviii. p. 693. 
(11) Philofoph. Tranfatl. Vol. xlviii. p.693, 740. 
(12) Philofoph. Tranfatl. ubi fup. 
( 1 3) Philofoph. Tranfatl. ibid. 
(14) Philofoph. Tranfatl. ubi fup. p. 693, 740. 
(15) Chard. Voyages en Perfe , &c. Tom. iii. p. 119. A Am- 
fterdam, 17 11. Philofoph. Tranfatl. V ol, xlix. p. *597, *598. 
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