MALLERY. ] PICTOGRAPHS IN ALPHABETS. 675 
W. St. Chad Boscawen (@) says: 
Man’s earliest ventures in the art of writing were, as we are well aware, of a purely 
pictorial nature, and even to this day such a mode of ideography can be seen among 
some of the Indian tribes. * There is no reasonable doubt but that all the 
principal systems of paleography now in vogue had their origin at some remote period 
in this pictorial writing. Inso primitive a center as Babylonia we should naturally 
expect to find such a system had been in vogue, and in this we are not disappointed. 
Fig. 1087 is presented as a brief exhibit of the pictographs in some 
inchoate alphabets. 
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SI2. 
Picton tad Hier atic 
Hand. 
Fish. 
Corpse: 
Wood. 
Caves 
Home, 
lace. 
Bownrd— 
ar 
God 
Ear; 
Water: 
Lorre. 
Half, 
Door 
or Gate , 
Fia. 1087.—Pictographs in alphabets. 
