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tions. See the eighth, ninth, and tenth of the Palmy- 
rene infcriptions. 
3. The proper name J 03 , MALA, in the feventh 
infcription, teems to anfwer to MAAHC, in the fe- 
venth of Dr. Bernard’s Greek Palmyrene infcrip- 
tions j though the terminations of thofe words are 
not intirely the fame. The proper names, or fur- 
names, NT are alfo in like manner repre- 
fented by CAAMHC IAAHC, as has been already 
obferved. As for the name, or furname, SALCA- 
LATH, or SALMALATH, it only occurs in the 
feventh of Mr. Dawkins’s Palmyrene infcriptions, 
which I have here been attempting to explain. 
4. Though the dialedt, in which the two infcrip- 
tions I am confidering are written, be apparently the 
Syriac j yet the word D*1, IACVLATOR, in one of 
them, as has been already remarked, is undoubtedly 
Hebrew. As for *613, EOTAH, DDT AHMOC, and 
CTNKAHTIKA, or rather CTNKAHTI- 
KON, they are mote evidently Greek. In one 
of thefe infcriptions, the word t!H, PRINCEPS, 
VIR PRIMARIVS, appears without either the 
or the inferted as the middle letter j which 
fometimes, tho’ very rarely, happens. The word 
NDW, CATERVA, is applied to the Ifhmael- 
ites, as merchants, Gen. chap, xxxvii, ver. 2f. 
in the Syriac verfion ; which, with the word AP- 
XEMllOPON, exhibited by Mr. Dawkins’s thir- 
teenth Greek infcription, agreeing in fignification 
with our NHW DH, plainly fhews, that I have hit 
upon the true fenfe of that term here. The furname 
PHILINVS and the name MARIVS are only vili- 
ble in the fifth of thefe Palmyrene infcriptions ; 
Mr. 
