42 On the Division of Labour as 



Jan. 1823,) " It is better to make a few false steps than to 

 stand quite still." 



There are some detached passages in your review, on which 

 I shall make a few remarks of a more miscellaneous nature. 



P. 143. " There is no reason to * dispute' Mr. C.'s having, 

 in many cases, anticipated Dr. Y.'s discoveries." Now Mr. 

 C. does not profess to have anticipated anything that was done 

 in England : either he denies the accuracy of some of the con- 

 clusions, or he professes to have been unacquainted with them ; 

 but he does not suppose Dr. Y. to have made out any thing 

 which he had made out before : in that case the question might 

 easily be settled by priority of publication. 



In the same page, you seem to take for granted that 

 Quatremere has been handled unfairly by Champollion. But 

 are there three persons in England who are capable to decide 

 that question ? 



P. 145. " The hieroglyphics might be arranged from right 

 to left, or from left to right ; but the latter is the most preva- 

 lent order." It is not easy to say which order is prevalent in 

 the sculptured inscriptions ; but it may be questioned if the 

 Egyptians ever wrote from left to right with a pen. And this 

 fact gives some authority to the accuracy of Herodotus. 



P. 150. IVhen you say that *' the kind of writing, which 

 expressed objects, by means of the letters of the alphabet, is 

 manifestly the enchorial of the Rosetta stone," you seem to 

 have forgotten your admission (in p. 144), that " Dr. Young 

 ascertained that the Egyptians had no [purely] alphabetical 

 characters whatever." 



P. 154. " The connexion between the hieroglyphic and 

 alphabetic characters is pointed out, if we mistake not, in the 

 Supplement of the Encyclopaedia, published in 1819." It 

 appears to have been^rs^ pointed out in Dr. Young's letter to 

 the Archduke John, dated August 1816, where he observes, that 

 " a loose imitation of the hieroglyphical characters may even 

 be traced, by means of the intermediate steps, in the enchorial 

 name of Ptolemy."— P. 3. Mus. Crit. vii. 



P. 156. You say that Petammon must probably be the 

 Egyptian word corresponding with Ammonius in Greek ; and 

 that the supposition becomes a certainty from the Greek in- 



