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Hence ’tis obvious at firft fight, tint the forms of 
feme of thefe letters differ from thofe of the corref- 
pondent elements in M. l’Abbe Barthelemy’s alpha- 
bet ; and that the characters he takes for Vau and 
yod, which has indeed been already remarked, I 
fuppofe to be Pe and Zain. Which of us is in 
the right, after a more accurate copy of the inferip- 
tion can be procured, perhaps the learned may be 
able to decide. 
IV. 
Who Hannibal the fon of Barmelec, Barmelc, 
or Bormilc, was, or when he lived, for want of fuf- 
ficient light from ancient hiftory, I cannot take upon 
me precifely to determine. We may however, I 
think, reft allured, that he died a confiderable time 
(perhaps feveral centuries) after the Citiean inferip- 
tions, or at lead the earlieft of them, firft appeared. 
The forms of feveral of the letters, particularly of 
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