INTRODUCTION. 



" With emblematiek skill and mystick order, 

 Thou shew'dst where tow'rs on battlements should rise, 

 Where gates should open, or where walls should compass/' 



Prior. 



THAT hieroglyphics formed the earliest kind 

 of written language cannot be disputed, since 

 reason pronounces pictorial emblems the most 

 natural mode by which a communication of 

 ideas could be effected previous to the inven- 

 tion of a more regular system. 



The monuments of the greatest antiquity 

 confirm this opinion, and the most ancient 

 rocks of Egypt make known the early con- 

 quests of these people which are expressed 



