representing the Tkeban Sphinx. 17 



yet found that any one has combated with sufficient evidence, 

 an hypothesis that I have recently proffered, of this fa- 

 bulous form having been taken by the Egyptians, from the 

 Chaldaic or Assyrian Sphinxes. The Mithraic figures of an- 

 cient Persia, that call forth the wonder of modern travellers, 

 among the wreck of Persepolis, are doubtless cognate with, or 

 directly copied from, those of Babylon, which have from time 

 to time been discovered amid the ruins of that most ancient 

 citrj ; and are in some instances found there of precisely the 

 same form as the Egyptian Sphinx-. 



But wandering amid the mazes of conjecture, vainly en- 

 deavouring to obtain a clear idea of this antique matter, the 

 reader may be looking anxiously forward to the end of our 

 almost hopeless inquiry; and may well be disposed to exclaim 

 with the outwearied patience of Milphio in the play : 



Si nequeo facere, ut abeas, egomet abiero : 

 Nam isti quidem hercle orationi Oedipo 

 Conjectore opus est, qui Sphyngi interpres fuit. 



Pl'Mitm—Pcmulus, Act. 1. 



Art. II. Some additio?ial Facts relating to the Division 

 of the Eighth Pair of Nerves, communicated in a Letter 

 to the Editor of the Journal of the Royal Institution, 

 by A. P. W. Philip, M.D., F.R.S. Ed., ,^c. 

 I CANNOT, in any way, refer to the division of the eighth 

 pair of nerves, without taking the opportunity to acknowledge 

 the very candid and liberal manner in which Mr. Broughton 



appear atUl more likely; if the etymon of its name be allowed (accord- 

 mg to the Abbd Pluche) to be found in the Hebrew, signifying nothing 

 more than Superalmndance. « «Mang-,redundantia, Job xxii. 11. and 4 Reg*! 

 ix. 17. and Paraph. Chaldaic. in Proverb, iii, 10. ' Vino tore ularia redunda- 

 h^ai.'"— History of the Heavens, v. 1. b. 1. c. 1. 



. I allude more particularly to a very ancient Gem in fine preservation, 

 which, with several others of extreme curiosity, has been found within 

 these few years, upon the Site of Babylon, by Captain Lockett, who 

 brought them to this country, and with a sight of which I have very recently 

 been favoured by Mr. Landseer, to whom they are intrusted.-^ee Ar- 

 ciueolngm, Vol. xviii., Art. 45. 



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