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known to me, — to translate and interpret publicly the Pompeian 

 Tablet, but strictly according to Ch's theory, his Grammar and 

 Dictionary. — The latter, however, being already forgotten and 

 totally altered by B., it will be necessary to add the following 

 paragraph. At present everyone believes Ch's system to be rep- 

 resented by B. 



PLAGIARISM. 



1. In Ch's Precis, Grammaire, and Dictionnaire, we read that 

 no hieroglyph expressed "one or two syllables" (see the passages 

 in the writer's Gram. ^Eg. p. xvii.) This fundamental law has 

 been deserted as well by L, and B. as by all later Egyptologists ; 

 they have clandestinely appropriated the writer's theory that 

 " regularly each hieroglyphic figure expresses a consonantal 

 syllable." Nobody before 1826 has discovered that the Egyptian 

 literature was a syllabic writing. That conduct is termed plagi- 

 arism or literary theft. 



2. According to Ch. the language of the hieroglyphs was the 

 Coptic, and not the Hebrew, as the writer maintained. But B., 

 deserting Ch's standard, clandestinely adopted the latter, and he 

 referred some thousands of hieroglyphic words to Hebrew roots. 

 Nobody before 1S26 has taught that the Ispo. dcdhxTOC was a 

 Hebrew dialect. This is again plagiarism. 



3 Ch. told the scientific world (see the passage in my G. yE. 

 p. xvii ) that each of the phonetic hieroglyphs expressed only one 

 sound, viz. that with which the name of the figure commenced^ 

 like the Hebrew letters. The writer, on the contrary, discovered in 

 1826 that the same hieroglyphs expressed sometimes very differ- 

 ent letters, because the ancient names were changed in later times, 

 the genders were discerned, etc. This rule was totally abandoned 

 by the Chts. ; they do not care any more about the names of the 

 hieroglyphs and their initials. B. informs us, e.g., that the star 

 expressed sometimes s, sometimes <5, sometimes t. The acre 

 signified s, si, ds, k; the child s and k ; the statuey"and u ; the 

 head /, «, ap, and tp ; the tooth a, m, h; the phallus /, w, met, 

 boh; the bee k, of , sack, saket; the eared-snake <?, e, ?*, h, Ji ; and 

 so on in many other cases. It is self-evident that in this way 

 nearly all hieroglyphic groups can be spelled very differently and 

 referred to ten different roots. 



4. According to Ch. the Egyptians very often applied abbre- 



