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for the former element, two or tiu^C the. 
monument are fo involved that they are Scarce, if at 
all, intelligible ; if for the latter, the fenfe runs 
throughout unembaraffed, confident, and clear. Nor 
does this character differ more from that allowed to 
(land for Mem , by M. l’Abbe, than do feveral of the 
acknowledged fomewhat different forms of Mem 
from one another. A draught of it, however, feems 
not to have been yet publilhed, by M. l’Abbe, that 
can be abfolutely depended upon. For in the copy he 
firff communicated to the learned world, represented 
by him as a tranfeript perfectly agreeing with the 
original, this character approaches a little nearer to 
his figure of Mem than it does in the firff plate of 
of the memoir before me, and confequently the 
latter feems a little more favourable to his hypothefis. 
Whether this minute alteration, which is too incon- 
fiderable to affedt the point in queftion, ought to be 
attributed to the inattention or incapacity of the en- 
graver, or to fome other caufe, I fhall not take upon 
me to decide. How that matter really ftands is beft 
known to M. l’Abbe. 
“ But the power of the letter He'\ fays M. l’Abbd, 
“ is fixed by other examples which I fhall foon 
“ produce.” Now that a charadter reprefenting He 
does not occur in the monument under confidera- 
tion, has already, I flatter myfelf, been rendered 
fufficiently clear; whether or no it is to be met 
with on any of the coins produced in the paper 
before me, by M. l’Abbe, comes therefore next to 
be-confidered here. 
Vol. LIV. 
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