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cations of the " Society of Biblical Archaeology," Ebers' Papyrus, 

 etc., most assuredly evidence. The following examples may be 

 specified : 



Champollion tells us that "the Egyptian calves had alw^ays 

 much thirst for waves of v^atex'"; that Ramses was called "Soleil,, 

 gardien de la verite"; that "Osimandya" signified "ami de Phthah 

 Ntibnubei"; that there existed in Egypt "a serpent thirty cubits 

 in length, fifteen cubits broad, and only four cubits thick." Rou- 

 ge's Memoire (p. 64) translates the words, "I am the lord, amidst 

 the pleasures of the house situated on the border of the valley," 

 thus: " Narrabo etiam nomen anguis illius, qui in monte suo ; 

 habitans in igne suo ; nomen ejus Ankeho, being 30 cubits long, 

 15 cubits broad, and four cubits thick." The same Champollion- 

 ist discovered that, in Moses' days, "sept decorations de la valeur 

 militaire, les colliers d'or," existed. Similar examples will be 

 found in Leipzig. Repert. 1852, p. 26 ; 1853, p. 155. By means 

 of the same system Lepsiusand Brugsch discovered a great many 

 monster words, e.g., aaau, urms,', aaan^ cynocephalus ; aaaiu, 

 time ; uaa, to swear ; uau, to well ; futu, greater ; oati, flesh ; 

 taau, rope ; tuau, praise ; ua, cheek ; chzi^ goods ; sechairi^ 

 father; ou, all; oau, office; 00 u, dignity; aa, chief; chaUy 

 popular; u^ way; «/, instantly — and a legion of similar words,, 

 occurring in no dictionary and in no language. Brugsch and 

 Ebers discovered that a gallon of Lagerbier {sic I) was, 1500 

 years B.C., the dosis for a sick man, and that honey (i.e. melissa, 

 apiastrum) belonged to the officinal plants. 



These facts, that Champollion's System is irreconcilable with 

 the most explicit reports of the ancients ; that the most learned 

 Egyptologist repeatedly declared this theory to be, in general, 

 and apart from some specialties, preposterous ; that by the instru- 

 mentality of Champollion's doctrine it was impossible to decipher 

 a great many royal proper names ; that no Champollionist, from 

 1824 down to this day, succeeded in translating any Egyptian text 

 completely, viz. grammatically and logically, much less the Ro- 

 settana and the Tanis-stone ; that all who followed Champollion 

 in interpreting Egyptian texts, obtained the most absurd results 

 and numberless monster words; — these facts, I presume, should 

 suffice to convince every intelligent unprejudiced man that Cham- 



