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coin, publifhed by M. Pellerin, will fet the point 
here infifted on beyond difpute. 
VII. 
It may not be improper to remark here, that the . 
pieces of Gozo confidered in this and two of my 
former papers were (26), at firft, taken for antient 
Maltefe medals, by M. Pellerin. Nor did I know, 
that he had altered his opinion, with regard to the 
place where thefe coins were (truck, till the month 
of June, 1769, when his laffc very valuable fupple- 
ment fufficiently apprized me (27) of that alteration* 
Had I known this fooner, I would moft certainly 
have mentioned it, either in one or both of my 
papers relative to thefe coins, inferted in the lad 
volume of the Philofophical Tranfaffions, which was 
then ready for publication. At fuch a juncture as 
this, it was impoffible for me to do that learned man 
iuftice, in this particular, there ; which gave me, as 
it ought, no fmall uneafinefs and concern. And this I 
the more readily own, as I have the higheft regard for 
M. Pellerin, on account of his exalted merit and abili- 
ties, as well as his lingular modedy, candour, and ge- 
nerofity. His works moft clearly demondrate his (u- 
perior learning, judgment, fagacity, and penetration, 
at the fame time that they difcover not the lead tinc- 
ture of that vanity and odentation which fo drongly 
mark the writings of certain other antiquaries, who 
yet make a very confiderable figure in the learned 
world. 
(26) Peller. ubi fup. p. 85, 86. 
(27) Peller.. Quatrieme et dernier fuppliment y bfc. p. 57, 81. 
A Paris, 1767. 
VIII. 
