[ ”9 ] 
q'he following paper was received a little before the re - 
cefs of the Royal Society, in 1763; but was after- 
wards mijlaid , , and not found ’ till the beginning of 
April 1764. To this accident is folely to be imputed 
the delay of it's publication . 
XXII. Some Remarks upon the fir ft Part of 
M. TAbbe Barthelemy’s Memoir on the 
Phoenician Letters , relative to a Phoenician 
Infcription in the Ijland of Malta. In a 
Letter to the Rev . Thomas Birch, D. D . 
Secret. R . S . /rw» the Rev . John Swinton, 
-D. i 7 . Member of the Aca- 
demy degli Apatifti at Florence, and of 
the Etrufcan Academy of Cortona in 
Tufcany. 
Good. Sir, 
Read April 12. TV X l’Abbe Barthelemy having lately 
17'H. I yl communicated to the learned 
world fiU copy o*f one of the Phoenician inferipti- 
ons long frnce difeovered in the ifland of Malta more 
accurately taken (as he pretends) than any of thofe 
that had ever before appeared, and attempted to ex- 
(,) Mem. dans kquel on prtruvt , qne Us Chinns font 
Egyptiemu, par M. de Guignes, &c. p. 39 54 ' 
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