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The unexpected fuccefs, I had met with, excited 
me afterwards to examine the letters and words of 
.feveral other Palmyrene infcriptions, even fome of 
thofe, which had no Greek ones to anfwer them. The 
latter however, for fome time, not a little embar- 
raffed me 3 as I found the fpirit and genius of them 
very different from thofe of the others 3 though, with 
pleafure, I obferved, that in the moft effential points 
the three completed; of them agreed. But, notwith- 
ftanding this, before the clofe of Thurfday, Ja- 
nuary 17, 175*4, I had difcovered twenty- one letters 
of the Palmyrene alphabet 3 and could, as I imagined, 
tranflate into Latin and Englifh feven of the thirteen 
infcriptions drawn in the Palmyrene character, 
three of which had no correfpondent Greek infcrip- 
tions. In fine, before the end of February 175*4,, I 
thought myfelf able to explain all the thirteen in- 
fcriptions, except the twelfth, which had feveral 
of its letters defaced 3 though I foon found out 
the date it bore, which indeed was vifible enough, as 
well as perceived the true turn and nature of it. I 
iikewife had made myfelf fully acquainted with the 
forms and powers of all the Palmyrene letters, except 
thofe of Tzade 5 which, if I am not greatly miftaken, 
I have fince certainly difcovered. To the preced- 
ing fhort account of the gradual progrefs made in the 
fuppofed interpretation of thefe infcriptions, from 
the beginning to the end of it, I fhali beg leave to fub- 
join here the Palmyrene alphabet, with fome ligatures 
of the letters. After which will follow a Latin and’ 
Englifh verfion of fix Palmyrene infcriptions, not a 
little illuftrated by the Greek ones anfwering to them; 
and of four of thofe, that have no correfpondent Greek 
infcriptions, To which I fhali add a few curfory re- 
marks. 
