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about three or four in number, as well as that 
of Baron Stofch (46), which F. Corfini has fo 
learnedly explained, having only Greek legends upon 
them. What therefore he has advanced, on this 
head, muff be confidered as not altogether fo con- 
fonant to truth ; efpecially, as he feems to have of- 
fered nothing of any great weight in fupport of his 
opinion. 
7. Before I difmifs the prefent fubjedt, I mull beg 
leave to take notice' of the Parthian character on the 
field of my medal, which is not very unlike the 
Chaldee (47) or Palmyrene Aleph , tho’ of fomething 
a more complex form. Should this be allowed, 
that character may be confidered as the initial letter 
of ARSACIA, the name of a city fubjedt to the 
Parthians, placed by (48) Ptolemy in Media ; where, 
according to (49) Dr. Vaillant, many of the Parthian 
medals were coined. That city is however believed 
by fome to have been feated on the fpot occupied 
at this time by Caibin, or rather Kazwin (fo), one 
of the principal towns of the Belad A 1 Jebal, or 
mountainous part of the Perlian Irak ; for a par- 
ticular account of which place, the curious may 
have recourfe to Golius, and the eaftern geographers. 
As I have already far exceeded the limits propofed 
to myfelf, when I began this letter, I fhall not now 
touch upon any other obfervations relative to the 
(46) Corfin. in Ded. Nob. Fir, Phil. Venut. p. 5. 
(47) Pbilofopb. Tranfatt. Vol. xlviii. p. 693, 740. 
(48) Ptol. Tab. Urb. Infign. p. 39. Ed. Hudf. Oxon. 1712. 
(49) J. Foy Vaill. in Arfadd. Imper. palT. 
(50) Hamdalla Ifm. Abu’lfed. Mohammed A1 Firauzabad. 
Nafsir A1 Tufi, Ulugh Beik, &c. Golii not. ad Alfragan. p. 200 
— 204. 
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