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figure of King Moeris, green basalt, of exquisite workman- 

 ship. 5thly. A statue, erect, of Amenophis II. 6thly, A 

 statue of the god Phta, executed in the time of the last-men- 

 tioned king. 7thly. A group of freestone, representing King 

 Amenoftep, of the nineteenth dynasty, and his wife Queen 

 Atari. 8thly, A statue, larger than life, of Ramses the Great 

 (Sesostris), in green basalt, finished like a cameo; upon the 

 steps of the throne are sculptured, in full relief, his son and 

 wife. 



" The number of funeral statues in basalt, red and white 

 freestone, white calcareous stone, and gray granite, is very 

 considerable : amongst them is one of a man crouching, whose 

 tunic bears an inscription in the Egyptian vulgar tongue, of 

 four lines. The steles of four, five, and six feet in height, ex- 

 ceed the number of a hundred ; there is an altar covered with 

 hieroglyphic inscriptions, with a great number of other ob- 

 jects of antiquity. This comprises only one part of the col- 

 lection, and there remain two or three hundred packages to 

 be opened. The number of manuscripts is one hundred and 

 seventy-one, of which forty-seven are already unrolled. Among 

 these I have discovered about ten contracts in the Demotic 

 writing ; a Greek papyrus, and a law-suit between two inha- 

 bitants of Thebes relative to the ownership of a house ; the 

 pretensions of the parties pleading and the means of the ad- 

 vocates are analysed, and the laws favourable to their respec- 

 tive pretensions textually cited. 



" At the end is the actual judgement, which was delivered 

 in the fifty-fourth year of Ptolemy Euergetes II. A bilingual 

 inscription in Egyptian and Greek, and a decree in honour 

 of a prefect of the township of Thebes, and rendered under 

 the reign of Cleopatra and her son Cesarion, whose I had 

 already proved the actual reign by the perusal of a scroll 

 sculptured upon the temple of Dendera. But that which is 

 most interesting is, that among the papyrus of the collection, 

 is a Phenician manuscript; unfortunately there are but frag- 

 ments of it, but perhaps others may be found amongst those 

 not yet unrolled." — French Journal. 



Meteorological Observations at Great Yarmouth, by 

 C. G. IIauley, Esq. 



Da y s - Winds - Thcrmom. Rain. 



1824/ Dry. Wet. E. SE. S. SW. W.NW.N. NE?Low. High.Med. In. 



M.iy 14 17 7 4 3 1 — 3 9 4 46 72 55 2i 



June 16 14 I 9 3 3 1 — 3 10 55 69 60 2f 



July 22 9—238 6228 60 79 69 21 



August 15 16 2 4 3 7 4 2 5 4 60 72 66 2£ 



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