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given, even upon the moft critical examination, will not 
be found very remote from truth. The alphabets 
deduced from thefe infcriptions and the Siculo-Pu- 
nic coins, illuftrated here, will, I flatter myfelf, not 
a little facilitate the interpretation of other fimiiar 
remains of antiquity. Nor will M. 1 Abbe, for whole 
fuperior merit I have a real efteem, find the lead 
reafon to complain of any illiberal treatment in 
this memoir. For as on the one hand, ever averfe to 
flattery, I have delivered my fentiments with a be- 
coming freedom, when I thought myfelf obliged to 
differ from him s fo on the other, notwithftanding 
the provocations received from certain authors, I have 
ftudioufly endeavoured to avoid every thing that 
might feem to have the leaft tendency to a diminu- 
tion of his character, as well as all undue warmth and 
afperity of expreflion. Noram 1 confcious of having 
mifreprefented him in any one particular. Tiuth 
(lands in no need of fuch fupports, nay it utterly 
difclaims them ; and truth is confidered as the foie 
objedt in view here by, 
S I R, 
Your much obliged. 
And moft obedient, 
Humble fervant, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. 
Nov. 24, 1764. 
John Svvinton. 
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