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As the foregoing Etrufcan coins are proved to have 
been Eruck about the 662 d or 663d (41) year of 
Rome, the Etrufcan alphabet then undoubtedly pre- 
vailed over a very confiderable part of Italy; though 
the forms of fome of the characters, particularly thofe 
of A, P, and I, were not precifely the fame with 
thofe of the equipollent letters ufed in Umbria and 
the (42) Proper Etruria. I fhall only at prefent beg 
leave farther to remark, that the reverfe of my Etruf- 
can denarius has handed down to us a new form of 
the Etrufcan M, placed in the exergue, which has 
never been before obferved on any of the Etrufcan 
remains of antiquity ; and that I am, with fentiments 
of the higheE refpedt and efteem, 
S I R, 
Your mod obliged, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. and moft obedient, 
May 19, 1760. humble fervant, 
J. Swinton. 
LX XVII. De Proximo Veneris fub Sole 
\ Tranjitu . 
Ad Londtnenfem Regiam Societatem , 
Reac j I9 ’ 1 * \ ""EMO fane ignorat AEronomus,, 
quanti interfit ad abfolutam per- 
feCtionem Aftronomiae, accurate nofle diEantiam Terra 
(41) Annibal. degli Abat. Olivier, ubi Tup. & alib. 
(42) Gor. Muf Etrufc. Annibal. degli Abat. Olivier, in Sag* 
di Differ ta%. Accademkb . &c, Tom. II. & Tom. IV. 
5 a Sole* 
