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farther follow, that the copies of the Tree above- 
mentioned infcriptions, published by Mr. Reland 
and F. Montfaucon, are not very inaccurately taken ; 
and confequently that the elements they contain, 
though heretofore termed by me Palmyrene, on ac- 
count of the refemblance between them and the 
letters inferibed on feveral of the ftones found amongft 
the ruins of Tadmor, are not ftridtly of the fame 
form with thofe that conftituted, in certain intervals, 
the true (23) and proper alphabet of the Palmy- 
renes. 
7. In conformity to the fentiment here laid down, 
it may be farther obferved, that the firft Roman Pal- 
myrene infeription feems to have been drawn in fome 
city of Syria, or Irak, at a confiderable diftance from 
Tadmor, and to have been brought from that city 
to Rome. This opinion, notwithftanding what I 
formerly intimated, or rather (24.) infinuated only, 
to the contrary, upon farther confideration of the 
matter, and fince the difeovery of the above-men- 
tioned characters on the reverfe of my Parthian coin, 
I find myfelf pretty ftrongly difpofed to entertain. 
Such a notion is not only countenanced by the forms of 
the letters themfelves, as they were cut in the ftones, 
which have preferved them, about the fame time 
that two of Mr. Dawkins’s inferiptions were (25) 
drawn out at Tadmor, but likewife by the word 
I 7 AAMTPHNOC, in the correlpondent Greek inferi- 
ption. For as all thefe bear nearly the fame date. 
(23) Pbilofopb. Tranfaft. Vol. xlviii. p. 693. 
(24) Philofopb. Tranfaft. Vol. xlviii. p. 738,739. 
(25) Ibid, p.738. Dawk. Alarm. Palmyren. Inlcript. Palmyren. 
j, 8. iv, 9.. 
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