sented thus, 
; the Chaldaic b was 
; the Syriac sign for b was 
; the Illyrian b was 
.
The Maya e is 
; this became in time 
; then 
(we see this form on the Maya monuments); the dots in time were indicated by strokes, and we reach the hieratic Egyptian form, 
: we even find in some of the ancient Phœnician inscriptions the original Maya circles preserved in making the letter e, thus, 
; then we find the old Greek form, 
; the old Hebrew, 
; and the later Phœnician, 
: when the direction of the writing was changed this became 
. Dr. Schliemann found a form like this on inscriptions deep in the ruins of Troy, 
. This is exactly the form found on the American monuments.
The Maya i is 
; this became in time 
; this developed into a still simpler form, 
; and this passed into the Phœnician form, 
. The Samaritan i was formed thus, 
; the Egyptian letter i is 
: gradually in all these the left-hand line was dropped, and we come to the figure used on the stone of Moab, 
and 
; this in time became the old Hebrew 
or 
; and this developed into the Greek 
.
We have seen the complicated symbol for m reduced by the Mayas themselves into this figure, 
: if we attempt to write this rapidly, we find it very difficult to always keep the base lines horizontal; naturally we form something like this, 
: the distinctive figure within the sign for m in the Maya is 
or 
. We see this repeated in the Egyptian hieroglyphics for m, 
, and 
, and 
; in the Chaldaic m, 
; and in the Ethiopic 
. We find one form of the Phœnician where the m is made thus, 
; and in the Punic it appears thus, 
; and this is not unlike the m on the stone of Moab, 
, or the ancient Phœnician forms, 
, 
, and the old Greek 
, or the ancient Hebrew 
, 
.
