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ther with divers other charadlers, to the number of 
200, copied from undoubted monuments of Egypt, 
are really and indeed Chinefe charaders ; and if they 
be, of what dialect, and of what age are they ? 
2. What fenfe doth each of thele charaders ex- 
prefs; and what is the particular interpretation? 
'3. Doth the hiftory of China, or popular tradi- 
tion, or any analogy with the modern or antient me- 
thod of writing of any other nation, afford ground for 
fuppofing that thefe charaders have been received 
from foreigners ; or were they invented by the Chi- 
nefe themfelves ? 
4. Are there any monuments or cufloms amongfl 
the Chinefe, which refemble thofe of the antient 
Egyptians; or which fliould induce us to think, that 
there has ever been any communication between the 
two nations? 
. The anfwer received from China takes notice only 
of the fmall number of charaders which were copied 
from the buff of Turin ; occafioned probably by fome 
accident or failure in the pacquets, of which there 
were three copies fent, and one of them containing 
the Turin charaders only ; the anfwer is dated from 
Pekin, Odober 20, 1 764, addreffed to the Members 
of this Society, but with no lubfcription, or figna- 
ture, excepting lour ffars, and this addition of the 
company of 
The author’s method, or order, is as follows : 
I. An introdudory prefitce. 2. A hate of the 
enquiry, as colleded .paitly from the lettei, and 
partly from Mr. Needham’s printed book. 3. 
What the author calls an hiftorical pidure of the 
Chinefe tongue and its charaders. 4. An applica- 
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