9B Hieroglyphical Fragments. 



any notice of it. Unfortunately, Dr. Granville has mistaken 

 M. Labarraque's direction, and by passing chlorine, to *' com- 

 plete saturation," through the carbonate, instead of using the 

 quantities directed, has failed in obtaining Labarraque's really 

 curious and very important liquid ; to which, in consequence, 

 not one of his observations or experiments applies, although 

 the latter are quite correct in themselves. 



Royal Institution^ Sept. 3, 1827. 



Hieroglyphical Fragments ; with some RemarJcs on English 

 Grammar. In a Letter to the Baron William Von Hum- 

 boldt. By a Correspondent. 



My dear Sir, 



I am happy to tell you that our prospects of new documents 

 from Egypt are very rapidly increasing: Mr. Burton has had 

 the good fortune to discover at length, in a mosque, the triple 

 inscription for which he has been some years in search ; and he 

 has been negociating with the Pacha for its removal. From its 

 magnitude and state of preservation, there is every reason to 

 believe that it will rival the pillar of Rosetta in its importance, 

 and I sincerely hope that it will tend to check the wildness of 

 conjecture, which has been rioting without bounds in the regions 

 of Egyptian literature. Mr. Tattam is printing a Coptic 

 grammar, and I am preparing an Appendix, which is to contain 

 the rudiments of an Enchorial Lexicon : I ardently wish that 

 Mr. Burton's inscriptions may come to my assistance before 1 

 complete it. I have received nothing from France or from 

 Germany for these four years past : even what is published 

 seems by some fatality to have been withheld from me; 

 and the booksellers send no answers to my commissions. I 

 trust your brother will not forget his kind promise to think of 

 me at Berlin. 



I have to thank him and you for your obliging present of 

 your Letter to Abel Remusat on the Genius of the Chinese 

 Language, which has greatly interested me : the best return 

 that I can make will be to give you some remarks which have 

 occurred to me on the language of hieroglyphics in general, 



