188 Rev. Epwarp Hincxs on the Number, Names, and Powers 
L, is proved by the form of the Hebrew word which corresponds, namely, 7Mwv, 
Mishxdr (Ps. cx. 3). Both the Hebrew and the Egyptian word signify “the 
dawn of the morning.” This letter had for its usual expletive the vertical line ; 
but in place of that we have here the quail. The name of the lion, then, was 
expressed by the mouth or lion, and the quail, RU, sounded probably LeW or 
LeV, and connected with the Greek AeF-wv, Bohemian lew, German Liéwe, and 
with the Hebrew x15. Champollion gives the name, with a /eg, in place of the 
quail, which will be worthy of notice when we come to consider the power of 
that character. The /éon seems to have been first used as phonetic in the fourth 
age, and it had at first apparently a syllabic power. In the reign of Thothmes 
III. I have only met with it in the word XaLeV, fig. 21. 
14. A bent line, apparently a chair back (S. 13s. 1), expresses S. That it 
had this power, and not that of SH, is proved by its being represented by the 
Hebrew 0, as well as by w, as in DDMyn, and, at a later period, in 078, Persia. 
It is used in the first age on the tomb of Teta, and has for its expletive the semé- 
circle, No. 17. 
15. A broken line (S. 2; s. 2) is habitually interchanged with the preceding 
character ; it has the same expletive, and is used on the same tomb. 
16. The bent rope, resembling a sugar tongs (T. 1; t. 1), has for its exple- 
tive the quail, and is used on the same tomb. Its power appears from the tran- 
scription IT. 2, fig. 25, and from its being habitually mterchanged with the purse, 
which appears from the Greek transcriptions, IV. 1, 8, 12, to have had the 
power of T. The Coptic form of the feminine article, and of the affix of the 
second person plural, as well as of several other words, shew that this letter was 
T, and not TH, though in Greek transcriptions of the Ptolemaic period it was 
frequently expressed by 0. : 
17. A semicircle (T. 2, t. 2) is interchanged with the preceding in the affix 
of the second person plural, the demonstrative pronoun feminine, and the parti- 
cipial afformative ; it must, therefore, have had the same power. ‘This character 
is, however, not always phonetic. It is sometimes a sign of the feminine 
gender, which is not to be pronounced. But it must not be supposed that it is 
always so at the end of words; it may sometimes be a phonetic formative of the 
feminine gender ; and it is certainly to be sounded as an afformative of verbs, 
constituting the infinitive mood or noun of action, and also the noun expressing 
