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small, or the (20) Arabic ysl, akal, the compara- 
tive of ya, kal, smaller ; thofe nations confidering 
Gozo as a fmaller idand, hate, or diftrid, than Malta, 
As for the minute idand of Hephaeftia, or Lopadufa 
(21), though mentioned by leveral of the antients, it 
was looked upon as meriting little attention, or regard. 
The etymon laid down here feems more appofite and 
natural than that obtruded upon the learned world 
by Bochart. 
If the Phoenicians and Carthagininians then called 
Gozo, when occupied by them, cavl, an inha- 
bitant of that idand mud; have been named by them- 
gavli ; which in the plural will give cavlim, or 
cavlin, according to the different ages in which 
the monuments exhibiting the word at hrft appeared, 
That in was fometimes a Punic plural termination, 
the baalsamen of St. Audin (23) feems clearly 
enough to imply ; the word samen being of the 
Chaldee dual form, and evincing the plural as well 
as the dual number in Punic mafculine nouns to have 
ended fometimes in in. Several of the antient 
Maltefe, or Punic, numerals, publidied by Girolamo 
(20) Jacob. Gol. Lexic. Arabico-Latin. p. 1950, 195 1 • 
Lugduni Batavorum, 1653. 
(21) Plin. Nat. Hi ft. Lib. V. c. vi. Ptol. Geograph. Lib. IV. 
c. iii. Athen. Deipnofoph. apud Bocharr. Chan p. 554, 555, 
Father Froelich mentions a coin of this minute ifland, with the 
word AOnAAOTSXAinN upon it ; from whence we may 
conclude, thatrthe true antient name of it was AOIIAAOTI 2 A, 
LOPADvSsa, the authority of medals being deemed inconteftable 
by the learned. Erafm. I'roel. Notit, Elcmentar . Pswniftn. 
Antiquor. lAc. p. 97. 
(22) Bochart. Chan. Lib. I. c. xxvi. p. 554 * Franeofurti ad 
Moenum, i6Br, 
(23) Auguft. Locution. Lib. VII. c. i. 
(24.) Me- 
