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LETTER V. 
Reverend Sir, Chrift-Church, Oxford, 06 t. 21, 1754. 
Read Nov. 14, T JsJ m y l a ft letter I intimated to you, 
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conjectures, at lead; for the prefent, upon the fecond 
Roman Palmyrene infeription, publilhed by F. Mont- 
faucon, Mr. Reland, Sig. Poleni, and M. Spon, 
for the reafon therein affigned. But having fince 
been prompted by my curiolity to compare Mr. Re- 
land’s copy of it, by the affiftance of the two Pal- 
myrene alphabets 1 imagine myfelf to have difeo- 
vered, with the Chaldee letters, that appear at the 
bottom of M. l’Abbe Barthelemy’s third plate j I 
find that the latter may be fuppofed tolerably well to 
reprefent the former, and from thence am induced 
to conclude, that M. 1* Abbe’s copy of the fame in- 
feription muff have been pretty accurately taken. 
This has excited me to attempt, with all the atten- 
tion I am capable of, an explication of that in- 
feription ; the refult of which I now do myfelf the 
honour to fend you, drawn up in the fliorteft, and 
mod; concife, manner poffible. 
The infeription then, after the introduction of an 
emendation in the fecond line, and of two addi- 
tional letters in the third, which I would recom- 
mend to the confideration of the learned, may 
perhaps be pretty eafily exhibited in the Chaldee 
character, and demonftrated to exprefs the fenfe ot 
the Latin infeription, with which it is fuppofed to 
correfpond. 
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