486 REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN 
which, being the hand work of a mighty people, 
who, upwards of four thousand years ago, set the 
first example in the practice of the arts and culti- 
vation of the sciences, and thereby made the first 
great steps toward civilization, cannot otherwise 
than excite feelings of the highest veneration. 
Besides these considerations, the interest natu- 
rally attached to such fragments is indeed vastly 
enhanced by the fact of their being, for the most 
part, covered over with certain alphabetic charac- 
ters, whose most striking and peculiar appearance 
at once attracts our attention. The annexed 
figure may perhaps serve to convey an idea of 
the general appearance of such bricks and frag- 
ments of pottery, as are alluded to above. 
FIG. L. 
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