The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . W 53 5Ph C ~ <£ <u c <3 -a -2 2. c c -u « «=i -a c ? w ^ c S 8 , 1— cfl 5 c rt W y cWO O 3 * I « t, cc/a c rt -s 3 |S r3 S *~ rt 3 ° C rt C .s s ?« O c2-?3 rt C- 3 PS . O o u O S o -S5 -•*3 ^3 o o ooc rt rt o C o rt . O to t=3 C rt. Soc>o —x> Bo 1-4 Chap. IV. OF WRITING. The following alphabets feem to be immediately de>i/ed from thePhenician; namel
The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing . W 53 5Ph C ~ <£ <u c <3 -a -2 2. c c -u « «=i -a c ? w ^ c S 8 , 1— cfl 5 c rt W y cWO O 3 * I « t, cc/a c rt -s 3 |S r3 S *~ rt 3 ° C rt C .s s ?« O c2-?3 rt C- 3 PS . O o u O S o -S5 -•*3 ^3 o o ooc rt rt o C o rt . O to t=3 C rt. Soc>o —x> Bo 1-4 Chap. IV. OF WRITING. The following alphabets feem to be immediately de>i/ed from thePhenician; namely, the ancient Hebrew, or Samaritan, the Chaldaic,the Bajlulan, the Punic, Carthaginian, or Sicilian, the Pelafgian Greek,and its derivatives, which are written in the eaftern manner, from rightto left, and the Ionic Greek, written from left to right. This laftmentioned branch from the Pelafgic flock, is the fource from whence,not only moft of the alphabets of Europe are derived, but alfo of manyothers which have been adopted in different parts of Afia and Africa. The Chaldaic may be divided into the fquare Hebrew, the roundHebrew, and the more modern, or running hand Hebrew of the alphabets derived from the Chaldaic, are the Sy
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