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the borders of Arabia, particularly that province of 
it going among# the Orientals under the denomina- 
tion of Najd. The conjectures here laid down, I 
lay, upon fuppofition that I am not miftaken in the 
forms of thefe imperfeCt characters, may perhaps be 
confidered by the learned as not altogether remote 
from truth. And this is all I defire, as I would have 
no greater ftrefs laid upon them than what they will 
naturally bear. 
4. But though I am not fo fanguine in relation to 
the mutilated letters juft touched upon, I cannot 
forbear declaring myfelf ftrongly inclined to believe, 
that the four lall elements on the reverfe of my coin 
are the very fame with fome of thofe that have been 
preferved by the two Roman Palmyrene infcriptions, 
and that copied by Mr. Mafton from Sig. Pietro della 
Valle’s original papers; all which I have, in the laft 
volume of the ( 1 1 ) Philofophical Tranfatfions, en- 
deavoured to explain. The form of the firft of them, 
unlefs I am greatly deceived, anfwers exactly to that 
of the Lamed which occurs in the fecond of (12) the 
Roman Palmyrene infcriptions, and is but little diffe- 
rent from that of the fame element exhibited by the 
other. The fecond and fourth of them at (13) 
leaft approach extremely near to the figures of 
the Ajin and Jod , as they appear in both the Roman 
Palmyrene infcriptions. And that the third of them 
is of a form fimilar to that of the Schin , or Sin, pre- 
fented to our view by Sig. Pietro della Valles (14) 
(11) Philofoph. Tranfafi. Vol. xlviii. p. 732 — 757. 
(12) Philofoph. Tranfafi. Vol. xlviii. Tab. xxx. 
( 13) Ibid. 
(14) Ibid. 
infcription., 
