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LX. Farther Remarks upon M. PAbbe Bai> 
thelemy’s Memoir on the Phoenician Let- 
ters, containing his RefleSlions on certain 
Phoenician Monutnents, and the Alpha- 
bets refulting fro?n them. In a Let- 
ter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D . 
Secretary to the Royal Society, from the Rev. 
John Svvinton, B. D. F. R. S. Member 
of the Academy degli Apatifti at Florence, 
and of the Etrufcan Academy of Cortona 
in Tufcany. 
Reverend Sir, 
Read Dec. 13, >r L’Abbe Barthelemy’s memoir 
1/6 4 ‘ 1V1. on *he Phoenician letters has 
again, with very large additions, been juft ( 1 ) commu- 
nicated to the learned world. Some at leaft of thofe 
additions have been made, as there is exceeding good 
reafon to believe, if not very lately, feveral years af- 
ter the memoir itfelf was read. This, as M. l’Abbe 
is faid to be the ftrft antiquary in France, and muft 
undoubtedly have a great influence over the members 
of that illuftrious body which he has fo long adorned, 
cannot well fail of being confidered by many people 
as a confirmation of the fufpicion for fome time 
(1) Memoires cle Litterature , tires dcs Rcfi fires 13 c. Tom. 
XXX. p. 405-426. A Paris, 1764. 
Vol. LIV. E e e entertained 
