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public. For, tho’ few of the latter directly correfpond 
with the former ; yet, by the affinity between feveral 
of the proper names, and the manner of expreflion, 
wherein they apparently agree, to omit other circum- 
ftances that occur, they greatly contribute to explain 
and illuftrate one another* 
Several other remarks on thefe noble remains of an- 
tiquity might here have been offered, and expatiated 
upon ; which, for the reafons already afligned, I muft 
beg leave at prefent to fuperfede. In the mean time, 
you will pleafe to accept of my mod grateful ac- 
knowledgments for the favour done me, and believe 
me to be, with all due fentiments of refpect, 
S I R, 
Your fnoff: obliged, 
and mold obedient fervant, 
J. Swinton. 
LETTER III. 
Reverend Sir, Chrift-Church, Oxford, Sept. 2, 1754. 
Read Nov. 7, \ S the Royal Society have done me the 
J 754- xV honour to approve of my attempts to 
explain Mr. Dawkins’s Palmyrene infcriptions, hand- 
ed down to us in the antient Chaldee, or Syriac, cha- 
racter; I have been thereby encouraged, before I 
conclude what I have to offer on that fubject, to 
fubmit to their fuperior judgment the following ad- 
ditional obfervations. 
1 . Though my numeral table, from Unity to a 
Thousand, may be intirely depended upon; yet I 
cannot, with the fame certainty, extend this to thehigher 
numbers. 
