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Mr. Boscawen has raised a few points which I will not just now 

 take up time by going into. With regard to the sphinxes of San, 

 he has raised a most interesting argument, and the photographs of the 

 lion which my friend Dr. Gwyther has brought home are of great value. 

 I quite agree that that is a good parallel of the shaggy sphinx, with 

 its mane. "With regard to one or two points he has brought out I agree, 

 after having read everything I can get hold of about Egyptian influence on the 

 Jews, and the beautiful work of the late Abbe Ancessi — who died at an 

 early age— on the book of Leviticus and other things in which Egypt was 

 supposed to influence the Mosaic doctrines and code, that Mr. Boscawen 

 has touched the right string. I say this from what little I know, and 

 after takmg a vivid interest in everything that might help me in finding 

 out the points of intersection between the Egyptian and Assyrian. It 

 is in regard to these great points that we find the most valuable results in 

 recent discoveries, and it does appear that there is a marked contrast between 

 Egyptian and Mosaic piety ; between the Egyptian moral code and the 

 moral and spiritual code of the Hebrews ; between the forms of holiness 

 and ideas of righteousness held by the Egyptian and by the Hebrew, more 

 particularly when I remember that the only things I have ever met with 

 that come home to one's heart and conscience as Biblical outside the Bible, 

 are the piteous wailings of the stricken heart in the fragments of peni- 

 tential psalms of the Assyrians, Babylonians, and early Chaldeans, these 

 being the only extra- Scriptural sources in which I have found the sense of 

 sin in the veritably-awakened conscience. Therefore, I quite agree that the 

 higher spiritual morality and yearnings are to be found much rather by the 

 side of the Euphrates than on the banks of the Nile, But upon this point 

 I should like some one to make further inquiry. With regard to the tent 

 of the Egyptian queen, I only point out, as a curious matter, the material 

 of which the tent was composed, and suggest a certain likeness to what we 

 read with reference to the Tabernacle. I am glad to say I have anticipated 

 Mr. Boscawen's notion of the etymology of Zar in some notes I made at 

 the Church Congress, where I had to speak upon these matters. I anr very 

 much indebted to Mr, Boscawen for his remarks, and I hope that such 

 meetings as these may prove the means of increasing our information on 

 such great topics as this. I trust also that the explorations in Egypt 

 may go on, and that, during the next six months, much more than we yet 

 know may be learned about the Nile Delta. I have only now to thank all 

 for the attention bestowed on my paper, and for the kindness and courtesy 

 with which I have been received. 

 The meeting was then adjourned. 



Note by the Autuoe, Aug. 12, 1884.— The last number of the Zeitschrift 

 of the renowned and regretted Lepsius contains an important article by 

 Brugsch-Pacha, in which he frankly accepts Naville's site of Pitliom, and 

 places Rameses further north on the eastern frontier of the Delta. The 

 latter site must not be regarded as ascertained. 



