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fmall crofs by changing the Jl:in into 
fm. and adding je> it would be an Arabic word 
a crofs, and might be explained, the crofs borne or 
carried by Jefus. The Hebrew would be jefus 
brought fafety, or falvation. But, Sir, more able than 
me will judge better. Thefe are all conjedtures; 
and it feems much eafier to fay what thefe infer! ptions 
are not, than what they are. They can fcarce be 
of St. Helen’s time; for they would have fome 
analogy with Greek charadters, and they have none. 
Perhaps fome gentlemen will think them antient 
Egyptian, written, by the colony, which they luppofe 
went to inhabit China. That is a matter I won’t 
meddle with ; but, amongd many others, it will be 
liable to one great objedtion, which is, that fuch colony, 
if there ever was one, probably went the ftreight road, 
from the head of one golf to the head of the other, 
from Hierapolis to Eloth, the way the Mecca pilgrims 
now go. This place would have been far out of their 
way, being at lead: fixty miles to the fouthward of the 
pilgrims road, unlefs they were fuppofed to have had 
tranfports at Dzahab, or Sharme. 1, for the firft reafon 
given, did not think them written by the Ifraelites, and 
could not conceive that they were of any great confe- 
rence. I only took thefe few as a fpecimen. Here are 
on other parts of this rock, fome Greek, and Arabic, as 
well as fome Saracen inferiptions, and an Hebrew one, 
which is inN The Saracens and Arabic only fay, 
“ fuch an one was here at fuch a time” ; the fame fay 
the Greek ones, except one, which fays, as I remem- 
ber, for I have it not with me, “ The evil genius of the 
army wrote this,” which can only prove, that fome 
body of Greeks was worded here, after the charadtere 
were 
