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infcriptions, that have been already explained. A 
ftrong prefumption this of the propriety, not to fay 
neceflity, of thofe alterations ! Nor can I allow the 
laft letter of the fecond line to be Lamed> as M. 
1 Abbe has been pleafed to aflert, it being in both 
the copies brought from Cyprus apparently Nun. 
That the firft element of the third line was originally 
Kopl : , that fome words are wanting in the latter part 
of the monument, and that this part imported was 
buriedinthemonth See. are notions l'o extremely 
lingular, however efpoufed by M. l’Abbe, fo intirely 
unfupported, both by reafon and authority, that it 
would be fuperfluous to enter upon a difeuffion of 
them. But as I have long lince largely expatiated 
upon this (91) infeription, I lhall drop all far- 
ther particulars relative to it here, and content my- 
felf with referring the lovers of Phoenician anti- 
quities to the piece wherein a full and copious ex- 
plication of it (though I there took for He and 
Tzade the characters reprefenting Jod and Thau) may 
be found. 
IV. 
Before I conclude this memoir, it may not be im- 
proper to illuftrate two more of the Citiean inferip- 
tions [Tab. XXVI.], that have hitherto efcaped the at- 
tention of the learned. Nor will this, I flatter myfelf, 
be deemed altogether foreign to the prefent fubjedl 
as thole inferiptions may probably throw fome add! 
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