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but, not being permitted to approach 
near enough to those mosques, I 
could Jearn nothing positive about 
them. 
I copied the inscriptions from a 
broken obelisk, and from some urns 
of white alabaster, of which Nor- 
den has given representations. The 
French consul permitted me to make 
a drawing of a very interesting piece 
of antiquity at his house. It was 
the wooden lid of a coffin that had 
contained a mummy, and was co- 
vered all over with hieroglyphics, 
and with other characters that had 
some appearance of being alphabe- 
tical. But as Cairo was not the 
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place in which such inscriptions 
were to be found in the greatest 
abundance, I could not copy so 
many of them as I should have 
wished to do. 
To facilitate the explanation of 
the hieroglyphics, I have made out 
a table of such as occur most fre- 
quently in all inscriptions. It may 
be farther remarked, that certain 
figures or characters occur oftener 
upon the obelisks; and others, 
again, upon the fragments of tombs. 
This fact may be of some use in 
helping to an understanding of the 
meaning which they were intended 
to convey. 
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