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ing a papyrus and distributing the portions. Thus, in this volume of 

 Hyperides, it seems that it had fallen into two pieces at the place 

 where it had most usually been opened, and where, alas ! it would 

 have been most desirable to have kept it whole ; and that the smaller 

 fragments have been lost amid the dust and rubbish of the excavation, 

 while the two extremities have been made distinct properties, which 

 have been sold, as we have seen, to separate collectors. So, at all 

 events, such matters are managed at Thebes. 



Mr. Harris mentions fragments of the " Iliad," which he had pur- 

 chased of some of the Arab disturbers of the dead in the sacred ceme- 

 teries of Middle Egypt, most probably Saccara. 



