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been taken at the expence of the Society of Antiquaries, London,) he differs materially from his friend: but he expresses a desire of having his own opinion submitted to the severest scrutiny. In addition to the probability of his hypothesis, he has employed much patience and ingenuity in applying it to different parts of the Inscription; and if he has not succeeded in developing the whole of it, his remarks, as far as they reach, wil not be undervalued by those who are desirous of understanding this curious vestige of antiquity :-a stone which, as containing the same decree engraven in the sacred, in the common Egyptian, and in the Greek characters, must assist more than any other circumstance to explain the Hieroglyphics.

After having proceeded in his attempt to ascertain the reading of many words in the Egyptian Inscription by the help of the Coptic tongue as his guide, the author endeavours to account for the limited success which has attended his exertions:

Independently of the Egyptian words, which I have discovered in the various Coptic dialects, a great number will be found which bear no analogy to that language, though of their true reading I have little doubt. This ought not to surprize those who know how limited are the subjects on which the Coptic books now in our possession treat. They consist only of translations of the Bible, of liturgies, homilies, martyrologies, psalms, &c. the low and vulgar style of which must necessarily differ from the elevated language of a decree composed in the name of all the Hierarchy of Egypt, and designed to perpetuate the remembrance of the exploits and beneficence of one of her kings. Moreover, a multitude of Greek terms, adopted into the Coptic language, especially since the introduction of Christianity, have insensibly supplanted the Egyptian words, and caused them to be forgot ten. The Copts, for instance, employ the Greek terms for law, image, &c. while the equivalent words in Coptic have disappeared from their language. These terms, and others equally unknown in the modern idiom, are to be seen in the Inscription; which, in its turn, admits expressions derived from the language of the court of the Ptole mies, which the Copts do not appear to have preserved in their's, but of which they express the sense by words belonging to their own vernacular tongue. If to these considerations are also subjoined the circumstances, that an interval of several ages elapsed between the engraving of the inscription and the most antient compositions in the Coptic language, and that during this period the language would ne cessarily vary, we shall not be much astonished at the difference ob. servable between the idiom of the Inscription and that of the Copts.'

In the prosecution of his researches in this department of literature, the author informs us, he has laid the ground-work of a Thebaic Dictionary.

A letter in reply from M. de Sacy is added, in which he highly compliments M. AKERBLAD on the ingenuity of his analysis; though he takes the liberty of expressing a doubt respecting the accuracy of some particular parts.

Moy.

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

Α

ADVERSITY, ode to, 95.
Aldred, archbishop of York,
his arrogant behaviour to Wil-
liam the Conqueror, 369.
Aleutan isles, account of the in-
habitants of, 183.

Amber, or electrum and succinum of

the antients, remarks on, 472.
That substance in much re-
quest among them, for orna-
ment, ibid. New theory of the
formation of, 497.
America, view of the origin of the
contest between that colony
and England, 139. Varieties
of population in North Ame-
rica, ib. British plan of the
American war, 143.
Amiens, treaty of, judicious re-
flections on, by French writers,
542.
Amsterdam, account of, 119.
Anemometer, description of that
new instrument, 88. note.
Ans, Mr. on tilling moory soils,

258.

Apocalypse, arguments for the au-
thenticity of that book, 381.
Armstrong, William, or Christie's
Will, anecdote of, 129.
Arum cordifolium, experiments on,
458.

Aurora Borealis, rem. on that

phænomenon, 423.
Austria, politics of that cabinet,
187, 188, Alliance betva en
that empire and Great Britain
recommended, 189. That em-
pire briefly described, 293.

APP. REV. VOL, XLV.

B

Bacon, Lord, some remarks on his
character, 217.

Bailey, Mr. on ploughing up
grass lands, 266-7.
Ball, John, his seditious text poe-
tically combated, 75.
Bark bread, how prepared by the
Laplanders, 287.

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Bazee-gurs, account of, 311.
Beauty, physical, rem. on, 486.
Beds, peculiar difference respect-
ing, in England and in Scot-
land, 444.
Beet-sugar,
of, 351.
Biot, M. on stones fallen from the
clouds, in Normandy, 506.
Bohemia, account of, 293.
Bonaparte, particulars of his life
and character, 47. Traits of
his Court, 51. Source of the
vices of his character, 247.
His treachery, 248. His phy-
siognomy, 249. General de-
ductions respecting him, 250.
Said to have uniformly pro-
moted the restoration of social
order in France, 540.
Bridge, Mr. on breaking up pas-
ture land, 267.
Buchanan, Dr. on the religion,
&c. of the Burmas, 307.
Bunzlau, curiosities at, 351.
Burmas, their religion and litera-
ture, 307.

unfavourable report

C
Cadyow-Castle, stanzas on, 133.
Camoens, some account of, 12, 13.
Canaries, orig. inhabitants of, 452.
Nn
Canals,

Canals, grand project for, 187.
Candour, remarks on, 222.
Cape of Good Hope, particulars
respecting, 2, 3, 4. Its im-
portance in a military, naval,
and commercial point of view,

7-10.

Carthage, its conquest by Rome
lamented, 405. Its previous
escape from the hostile inten-
tentions of Alexander the
Great, 406.

Cattle, horned, epidemic disease
ameng, 485.

Caucasus, antient, limits of, 310.
Chalcitis of the antients, explana-
tion of, 470.

Cheltenham, analysis of a new cha-
lybeate spring at, 431.
Chess. See Cox.
Children, medical advice respec-
ing, 105.

Christie's Will, or William Arm-

strong, anecdote of, 129.
Church of Scotland, its constitu.
tion, 399. Its directory of
prayer preferable to the En.
glish liturgy, 401.
Clover, native red, its culture re-
commended, 272.
Clyde, falls of, described, 443.
Coblentz, emigrant court of, ab-
surd and imbecile politics of,

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Education in France, present state
of, 242, 243,

-, good remark on, 360.
Eggs, directions for preserving
them, 49.

Elbe and Weser, remarks on the

blockade of those rivers, 187.
Election, two-fold, political, view
of that doctrine, 209.
Elections, parliamentary, argu-
ments respecting their fre
quency, 419.

Eloquence of the bar, remarks on,
525

Emigrants, French, various re-

marks on their views, charac-
ter, and conduct, 173, et seq.
England and France, customs of
the two countries contrasted,
237.

Eusebius, his testimony respecting
the Apocalypse, 381.
Expansion and congelation of
water, experiments rel. to, 193
-195.

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Fenelon, Abp. pleasing anecdotes
of, 527,
Ferguson, Major, anecdote of him
and General Washington, 144.
Fever, contagious, cause and treat-

ment of, 428-430.
Firs, Scotch, great profits of in
plantations, 288. Firs should
not be cut in summer, but in
winter, ib. See Pinus.
Florian, M. his fables recom-
mended to young readers, 524.
Fontenelle, Lamotte, &c their pa-
doxes combated, 515.
Fool of Quality, an abridgment of
that work, 314.

Fox, Mr. various obs. on his po-
litical character and conduct,
141, 142. 146.

-

censured by Frenc re-

volutionary writers, 539.

France, its present government

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Heat. See Pulsation.

said to be deprecated by all Henry, prince, of Portugal. See

European sovereigns, 191.

, Isle of, particulars respect-
ing, 457.
Freebooters, history of, 460.
French, remarks on the character

of that people, 125. 237-246.
--, their immutable and unre-
mitting amor patria, 2.
Friar, Italian epigram on, 104.
Froissart's Chronicles, a fine copy
of, in the library at Breslau, 355.
Frozen provisions, in Russia, mar-
ket of, described, 297.
G

Galley-fish described, 453.
Geography, its progress in the last

three centuries, 534.
Gil-Blas, striking remarks on that

work, 527.
Glanders, description of that dis-
ease, 326.

Gospel, sermon on the joy of be-
lieving in it, 300.
Gospels, first three, arguments con-
cerning, 374.

Grass lands, memoirs on the pro-
priety of breaking them up for
tillage, 266-274.

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Gassendir M. on atmospher
pie stones, 502.

Ice,

Ice, recommended to more gene-
ral adoption for keeeping pro-
visions in hot weather, 298.
Mode of managing it for this
purpose in Russia, ib.
Jenison Walworth, Countess dow-
ager of, lines on her death, 289.
Fenner, Dr. his conclusive trials
of the security of vaccination
against the small-pox, 324.
Jones, Sir W. particulars of his
life and extraordinary attain-
ments, 228-235-336-349.
Ireland, cruelties practised in, du-
ring the tumults, 57. Obs. on
the state and discontents of,
206, 207.

Irrigation obstructed by mills,
156.

Juries, that institution regarded
as not congenial in France,
540.

K

Kaffers, their firmness and cou-
rage, 6, 7.
Kepler, account of the labours of

that astronomer, 23-30.
Kubeer, an eastern poet, some ac-
count of, 312, note.

L

Lady of the Black Tower, a tale,
extract from, 318.
Lalande, M. on atmospheric stones,
503.

Lament of the Border Widow, a
poetical fragment, 128.
Lamotte, M. his literary paradoxes
refuted, 515. Criticisms on his
productions, 517. His cour-
teous behaviour, 518.
Latour-d'Auvergne Corret, M. a-
necdotes of, 542.
Learning, promoters and schools.
of, in the last three centuries,
530.
Lefranc de Pompignan, remarks
on his writings, 519. His ode
on the death of the elder Rous-
seau, ib.

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Mahometanism, See Mohamme-
danism.

Malabar, Christians of, account
of, 311.

Marle grass, its culture recom.
mended, 272.

Marriott, John, account of, 445.
Specimen of his poetry, 446, 7-
Mathematics, state of, from 1500
to 1800, 536.

Mechanics, instances of singular
genius in, 351, 2.
Medicine, its lamentable state in

France, in former periods. 488.
Memory, remarkable instance of,
in Sir William Jones, 229.
Merchants of the middle ages, in-

stance of their prodigious opur-
lence, 406.

Mercury, its use among the an-

tients, for gilding metals, 475
Mills, unfavorable to irrigation,
156.

Milton, visit to his house at Fo-
rest-hill, near Oxford, by Sir
William Jones, 338. Specimen
of a French translation of parts
of his Paradise Lost, 513. Of
French criticism on that ex-
quisite poem, 524.
Minerals, remarks on the know.
lege and use of among the an
tients, 469-475.

Letters, general state of, from Mohammdanism, historical view of

1500 to 1800, 529.

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