The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

DECIPHERMENT OF NEWTON STONE 27

hand. The so-called “ Semitic Phoenician’ writing, on the other hand, with reversed letters, and in the reversed or left-hand direction, and dating mostly to a relatively late period, was, I observed, written presumably by the ruling Aryan Pheenicians for the information of their Semitic subjects at their various settlements ; and by some of these Phoenicianized Semitic subjects or allies helping themselves to and reversing the Pheenician letters. It was obviously parallel to what we find in India in the third century B.C., where the great Aryan emperor of India, Asoka, writes his Buddhist edicts in reversed letters and in reversed or “‘ Semitic’ direction, when carving them on the rocks on his northwestern frontier in districts inhabited by Semitic tribes ; yet no one on this account has suggested or could suggest that Asoka was a Semite.

By this time also, I had recognized that the various ancient scripts found at or near the old settlements of the Pheenicians, and arbitrarily differentiated by classifying philologists variously as Cyprian, Karian, Aramaic or Syrian, Lykian, Lydian, Korinthian, Ionian, Cretan or “ Minoan,” Pelasgian, Phrygian, Cappadocian, Cilician, Theban, Libyan, Celto-Iberian, Gothic Runes, ete., were all really local variations of the standard Aryan Hitto-Sumerian writing of the Aryan Phcenician mariners, those ancient pioneer spreaders of the Hitt-ite Civilization along the shores of the Mediterranean and out beyond the Pillars of Hercules to the British Isles.

In tackling afresh the decipherment of the Newton Stone inscriptions, in view of the hopelessly conflicting tangle that had resulted from the mutually conflicting attempts of previous writers, which proved a hindrance rather than a help to decipherment, I wiped all the previous attempts off the board and started anew with a clean slate and open mind.

The material and other sources for my scrutiny of these Newton Stone inscriptions have been a minute personal examination of these inscriptions on the spot, the comparative study of a large series of photographs of the stone by myself and others, including the published