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knowledge, by overcoming difficulties fo great, that the firft 

 critics ot fclurope have hitherto confidered them as unfur- 

 jHountable. lie has immortalized himielf by a dilcovcry 

 which will form an epoch in literature, and has given a fo- 

 lulion to one of the mod curious problems in erudition by 

 dilcovering the antient alpliabet of the Egyptians, and ana- 

 lyfing it in his Lettre fur l hifcription Egjplieruie de Rofeite^ 

 Paris, 8vo. deV Imprimerk de la tle.pnbliquc, year lO. 



This intereftins pamphlet is fold at Paris by Treuttel and 

 Wiirtz, bookfellers, Quai Voltaire, as well as the following 

 work of .JSl. Akerblad, who feems to have been born to un- 

 veil the myfteries of the Eaft : hifcriptlonis Phenkite Oxo- 

 nlenjii nova Interpretation Parifiis, an. lO, 8vo. This is a 

 new explanation, much happier than the preceding, ot a 

 Phenician infcription which had exercilcd the ingenuity of 

 the learned Barthclemy and of Simon. 



M. Akerblad had before explained, in the Memoirs of the 

 Academy of Gottingen, for 1801, another infcription which 

 he found in the city of Athens. He explained alfo in the 

 ^Jagazin Encyclop'diqne, Fentofe, year !0, an infcription iii 

 a Coptic manufcript, which it appeared impollible to decy- 

 pher, becauie it was written in the running hand of the 

 Copts, till then unknown. It only remains for us to wifli 

 that M. Akerblad may proceed to London to copy, in the 

 Britifli Mufeum, and publilh with his tranllation, the famous 

 Coptic manufcript of Dr. Afkcw intitled Pijlis Sopbia, 

 which would throw great light on the antient philofophy of 

 the eaft. 



D'Ansse pe Villoison, 

 of the National Inltitute of France. 



The Society of Antiquarians of London have caufed an 

 accurate delineation to be made of the Greek infcription, ac- 

 companied by two others in honour of Ftolemy-lllpiphanes, 

 and found on a ftone in Egvpt, which has fmce been 

 brought to London. This delineation of the Greek infcrip- 

 tion 13 of the fame fize as the original, that is to lay, i foot 

 f\ inches in height, 2^- feet in breadth, and containing 54 

 Ines. 



A copy tranfmitted to the Royal Society of Gottingen was 

 laid before the members in their fitting on the 4th of Sep- 

 tember by profeilijp Ideyne, accompanied with a commen- 

 tary. In the fame fitting was laid before the Society of 

 Goitinccn, a paper intitled Pra>via de mneatis quin. vacant 

 Jnjcriptiones I'cr/epotitanis legcndts et e plieandis iieUitio, by 

 C. I'\ Grotefend, colaboralor in the Ichool of Gollin;.'en^ 



V. lio, 



