of Ships of the Line. 349, 



lation for any number of radial ordinates,.the choice of which 

 rtiust be left to the computor, and the degree of inclination 

 he intends to calculate the stability for. We have made choice 

 of 7°, because no ship of war should incline more in action ; 

 but from knowing the stability at this inclination, and the form 

 of the ship's sides, we may with confidence predict whether 

 it will be an increasing or decreasing quantity at other finite 

 angles. 



Fragments on Egyptian Literature. 



V. Egyptian word for *' Temple'' In M. ChampoUion's 

 general table, No. 291, he gives a group, which he interprets 

 *** Rpe, erpe, temple^ hieron, groupe symbolique." Dr. Young 

 ':had previously ascertained this to be the signification of the 

 group, and had published it as such in No. 87 of his article 

 « Egypt.**' 1 do not intend to dispute the correctness of this 

 inter[»retation, but 1 maintain that the groupe '\s phonetic; the 

 *^fcharacters of which it consists are S and E ; and there are, I 

 "think, evident traces to be found of the ancient Egyptian word 

 SE, a temple, in proper names, although it is a word unknown 

 to the modern Coptic. One compound name, of which it is an 

 element, is that of the city, from which the Sebennytic mouth 

 of the Nile was denominated Sebennu, that is, *• the temple of 

 Bennu," a god, who was represented in the form of a water- 

 fowl, and whose phonetic name is of frequent occurrence. 

 Other names, in which this element appears to occur, though 

 corrupted (as it was natural to expect that it would be, during 

 the lapse of so many ages), are Si-wah, *' the temple-Oasis," 

 visited by Browne ; and Galab-she, Gir-she, and Se-boua- — 

 temples in Nubia. I am aware of the supposed Arabic deri-^ 

 vations of some of these words, but I put no faith in them. 

 I believe them to be relics of the ancient Egyptian names, 

 though, doubtless, corrupted. We have in Ireland many names 

 of undoubted Celtic origin, for which very plausible English 

 derivations may be imagined, and are actually given. An an- 

 cient name, like an ancient landmark, will often survive a shock 

 by which tower and town may be destroyed. After above 3000 



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