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our view in paflages of fcripture, too numerous, as 
well as too obvious, to be cited here **. 
The length of the infcription, as it feems to have 
only a fingle perfon for it’s objedt, as well as the forms 
of it’s letters, will undoubtedly evince it to be the pro- 
duce of a later age ; though the precife time of it’s fird 
appearance, for want of fufficient light from antient 
hidory, I cannot take upon me to alcertain. Nor 
fhall I be fo vain as to pronounce the explication now 
fubmitted to the judgment of the Royal Society in ail 
points true, as I have not yet met with a copy of the 
infcription abfolutely to be depended upon. However, 
I hope it will not be found very remote from truth. 
If hereafter, by means of a more accurate tranfcript, 
I fhould difcover any errours in what has been here 
advanced, I fhall mod readily retradt them, and ever 
with great pleafure liden to better information. AH 
farther remarks on this curious monument of antiqui- 
ty, fo highly meriting the attention of the learned, 
1 mud at prefent fuperfede ; having now only time to 
beg you would believe me to be, with the mod per- 
fedt confideration and regard, 
S I R, 
Your much obliged, 
and mod obedient fervant, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon< 
May 20th, 1763. SwilltOll. 
Vid. Johan. Buxtorf. Thefaur. Grammat. Ling . SanSi. Heir. 
& Chriftian, Nold. Concordant. Particular. Ehraco Chaldaic. pafl*. 
Vid.etiam Boch. Chan, Lib. I. c. xxxv. p. 705, Franccfurti 
ad Moenum, 1681. 
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