Frazer.] ^ ' " [Pept. 6, 



The cartoons are made with great accuracy and uniformity, and in fact 

 the production of such a work by process printing could only have been 

 possible where great industry and artistic skill together with Oriental 

 knowledge were found conjoined in one individual. In European capitals 

 much of the drudgery of this kind of work is saved by the employment of 

 fonts of hieroglyphic type, but up to the time of the appearance of this 

 book there was not a single such font in the United States. 



He had projected other similar works of value, some of which were 

 partly commenced, others merely outlined at the time of his death. 



He added thus late in life to his many linguistic conquests that of Vol- 

 apuk, which many believed would ultimately become the universal lan- 

 guage. He wrote, read and spoke this now neglected creation with 

 facility. 



In 1892. Hobart College honored him with the degree of LL.D., honoris 

 causa. 



He was a man of robust health and a strong believer in the advantage 

 of manly outdoor exercise and sports One of his greatest delights to 

 within a year of his death was to join a favorite relative who was identi- 

 fied with hunting in all its forms, in expeditions to Barnegat Bay in the 

 duck-shooting season, where he would rise at four and lie in a sink boat 

 through the bitter cold of our bleak November mornings waiting for a 

 flock of ducks to arrive. So far from enfeebling him this seemed to 

 stimulate liis blood, and he would return browned and healthy from these 

 expeditions. 



In addition to singularly handsome features and a well proportioned 

 form, which age seemed not to affect, he maintained an erect and graceful 

 carriage to the very last day that he could stand. 



To those accomplishments, such as fencing, sparring and dancing, natu- 

 ral to a military man who had seen much of the best of the world's society, 

 he joined others less frequently observed in a Navy officer, such as riding 

 on horseback and playing billiards. Few persons made more graceful 

 cavaliers than Admiral Macauley, and the im^iossibilily of practice at 

 billiards on the element which was that of his chosen profession did not 

 prevent the accuracy of his strokes when on shore. 



Though severe in the execution of duty on the quarter deck, or on the 



win, etc. Finally, I closely compared the work with Pierret's Vocabulaire, the latest 

 issue of the kind, resulting in the dictionary now laid before the Society. 



I claim for it that it contains all the words that could be obtained from the sources I 

 have just mentioned, and probably all that have been defined by Egyptologists up to the 

 present time. 



These words, and their variants, are placed under their proper initial symbols or 

 characters, which, being carefully indexed, even the uninitiated may work out the 

 meaning of a hieroglyphical text. 



I have not placed any geographical or theological names in the book. Our constantly 

 increasing information on the geography and religion of ancient Egypt, necessitating 

 constant correction, I thought it better to restrict myself to the compilation of a book 

 that would be of use in translating ordinary lingual text. 



Philadelphia, December, 1882. E. Y. McCavley. 



