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VIII. 
But though M. Pclleriiv and I both agree, in our 
notions of the place where the coins in quedion fir ft 
appeared, as well as our ideas of the Phoenician cha- 
racters with which they are adorned ; yet we differ 
confiderably, in our IcClions of the word formed of 
thofe characters. I read it CAVLIN, making it a 
gentile name, fuch (28) as pTj?, TZIDONIN, 
nm TZ 1 DONIM, KOSVRNIM, &c. 
which we meet with on the medals of Sidon and 
Coffura : this feetningto me the mod: natural leCtion, 
as well as the mod confonant to the manner and 
genius of fuch minute infcriptions on the proper 
Phoenician coins: whereas he reads this word COLL, 
or COLON ; neither of which leCtions will, as I 
apprehend, prove fatisfaCtory to the learned. For if 
we fuppofe both the fecond and third letters to 
be Lamed, according to the eadern pronunciation (29), 
it ought to be read CALAL, or CALLAL, 
not COLL; but if we fhould take the lad letter 
for Nun , and pronounce the word COLON, the 
termination would feem to favour more of the Greek 
language than the Phoenician. Farther, if we fhould 
chufe the fird reading given us by M. Pellerin, the 
correfpondent Greek word ought to be KOAAOS ; 
if the latter, KOAONO£ ; neither of which words, as 
the old name of Gozo, unlefs I am greatly deceived, 
in any antient Greek writer, occurs. 
IX. 
Thus have I endeavoured to fhew, that, by the 
affidance of a very curious and valuable inedited 
(28) Pcller. Supplem. aux fix volumes, &c. p. 27. A Paris, 1765. 
Pbitcfoph. Tranfaft. Vol. LVI 1 I. p. 237, 239. 
(29J Val. Schindl. Lex . Pentaglot. p. 1614. Hanoviae, 1621. 
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