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entertained in feveral parts of Europe, and hinted 
at by me in (2) a former paper. It will therefore 
enable us to -account for the late publication of a 
piece, whichfeems to have been cried up by M.l’ Abbe’s 
admirers as one (3) of the mod valuable literary pro- 
ductions of the prefent age. What degree of atten- 
tion to this performance from the lovers of antiquity 
is really due, I fhali not at prefent take upon me to 
decide. My fentiments of it, however, if not yet 
diffidently known, from the following fhort addi- 
tional remarks, fubmitted with the utmod deference 
to the fuperior judgment of the Royal Society, will 
very clearly appear. 
I j : 
M. l’Abbe dill alTerts, that NIV, tzora, or tzvra, 
in the fird line of the Maltefe-Phoenician infcription, 
[Tab. XXII.] denotes the city of Tyre. To which 
I fhall only beg leave to reply, that this aflertion is ut- 
terly repugnant to the tedimony of the Tyrian coins ; 
which condantly exhibit the word “IV, t$zor, or 
tzvr, as the name of that city. This is a faCt ex- 
prefly allowed by (4) M. l’Abbe himfelf, though he 
produces it in fupport of the notion here advanced]} 
with which it mud, even at fird fight, be conlidered 
as altogether incompatible. 
To the fird letter of the next word he dill like- 
wife attributes the power of He, (5) and confequently 
affirms that word to be TOH, hoc votvm, this vow. 
(2) Pbilofoph. Tranf. Vol. L. Par. II. p. 799. Lond. 1759. 
(3) Journ. des Spavans, Decembre 1760. p. 348. M. de 
Guign. De /’ Orig. des Chin . p. 60. A Paris, 176c* 
(4) Memoir . de Litter . t*?c, ubi fup, p. 409, 
(5} Ibid. p. 410, 413. 
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