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Rh affirmative is most certainly true; as it is and shall be proved to be, in all those instances, which this mark refers to.

To depart from the common ways of writing or speaking, and such as have been used by the best pens, on purpose to show oneself more exact and knowing than the rest of the world, is a piece of affectation that savours of pedantry. Tauromenium is the word that is generally used by both ancient and modern writers. Dr Bentley has reformed our spelling, and will have it Taurominium because Pliny and Solinus