II. Remarks on the Palmyrene Infer ip t ion at 
Teive. In a Letter to the Rev . Thomas 
Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society, 
from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F.R.S. 
Member of the Academy degli Apatifti at 
Florence, and of the Etrufcan Academy 
of Cortona in Tufcany. 
Good Sir, 
Read Jan. 23, H E Palmyrene infeription at Teive 
having been inaccurately taken by 
Sig. Pietro della Valle, the tranfeript published in 
the Philofophical TranfaBions mud: be looked upon 
as incorrect, and confequently the explication of that 
infeription, which the Royal Society did me the 
honour ( 1) formerly to publidi, cannot in all points be 
intirely depended upon. Having therefore been in- 
formed, that the done itfelf, brought a few years fince 
out of the Ead, was in the pofleffion of the Right 
Honourable the Earl of Belborough ; I refolved to at- 
tempt getting a fight of it, that a true copy of fo cu- 
rious a monument might in proper time be imparted to 
the learned world. Having opened my defign to 
John Wood, Efqj member of parliament for Brack- 
ley in Northamptonshire, a gentleman of great me- 
rit and erudition, he carried me, with the utmod 
politenefs and good nature, to Lord Belborough’s 
houfe in Cavendifh-Square, May 21, 1764; where 
1 had a full view of the done, examined the in- 
(1) Philofoph. Tranfati. Vol. XLVIII. Par. II. p. 746-751. 
feription 
