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however ftrongly oppofed by the learned author above- 
mentioned, feems to me to be the moft eligible of 
the two. 
VII. 
It has already been remarked, in a former paper, 
that the old etruscans ufed monograms in their 
writing, on certain (15) occafions. To what was 
there obferved I would beg leave here to add, in 
corroboration of that remark, that this has been 
likewife alferted by the famous Sig. giovanni Bat- 
tista passeri (16), one of the greateft Etruican 
antiquaries of the prefent age ; and it is certain, that 
fuch ligatures, or complex characters, were actually 
made ufe of by the earlier Etrufcans, in fome of their 
infcriptions, that have even to this day efcaped the 
ravages of time. This has been irrefragably proved 
by the authors of the XJniverfal Hijiory (17), who 
have favoured the republic of letters with three or 
four of thofe complex characters, deduced from 
Eirufcan monuments of undoubted integrity and 
authenticity, dug up inTufcany, or the antient Pro- 
per Etruria. To thefe we have corefpondent types 
here in oxford, which may perhaps be of fome 
fervice hereafter to the learned world.. 
(15) Philojoph. Trcnfafi. ubifup. 
(i-6) Joan. Bapt. Fader, apud Anton. Francifc. Gor. in Muf . 
Etrufc. Voi. III. p. 142. Florentiae, 1743. 
(17) Univ. Hijh- Vol. XVI. p. 45. Load. 1748. 
VIII. 
