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taken place in the government, the manners, and even in the 

 lineage of its inhabitants, we can have no difficulty in con- 

 ceiving that much of the real history of the country was for- 

 gotten and lost, and that in its place, the traditions of the 

 Jewish settlers (nay, any fables that they may have invented, 

 of which an example is to be seen in the story of the composi- 

 tion of the Septuagint version,) may have met with a ready 

 reception ; and hence, that the whole system of Egyptian hi- 

 story should have been remodelled, so as to tally with those 

 traditions. The want of agreement between the history thus 

 formed, with the particulars of the ancient history of Egypt 

 afforded by Herodotus and Eratosthenes, and even by Dio- 

 dorus, (though this last writer, from his much later date, had 

 acquired a mixture of the false and the true,) afford the 

 strongest proof of the little reliance which ought to be placed 

 upon the former ; and this independently of the conclusions 

 arrived at from other sources, which are directly opposed to 

 the statements bearing the name of Manetho. 



That coincidences are said to exist between these writings 

 of Manetho and the results come to by M. Champollion and 

 the disciples of his school, is, I fear, only so much the more 

 in disfavour of the phonetic system of interpretation ; and it 

 may perhaps give validity to the opinion, that that system has 

 not merely been stationary, but has actually retrograded, since 

 the death of its illustrious founder; and that, in order to cul- 

 tivate it with the prospect of ultimate success, it will be neces- 

 sary to go back to the point at which it was left when science 

 sustained so severe a loss through his untimely death, and from 

 that point to pursue future investigations of the subject, upon 

 the same philosophical and solid principles on which his 

 splendid discovery and its subsequent development were 

 based. 



January 4, 1836. CHARLES T. Beke. 



XLIV. On the Influence of the Rotation of the Earth on the 

 Currents of its Atmosphere; being Outlines of a general Theory 

 of the Winds. By Prof H. W. Dove of Berlin. 



[Continued from p. 239, and concluded.] * 



WILL now pass from these direct and indirect observa- 

 -*■ tions to the following stricter proofs, calculated from the 

 mean motions of meteorological instruments. The calcula- 

 tion of thermal and barometrical wind-means shows that the 

 wind-compass (windrose) possesses two poles of pressure and of 

 heat, i. e. that there are two points nearly opposite to one an- 



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