SEYFFARTH—PAPYRUS- SCROLL. 531 
By hic figure expressed a syllable, is, as it seems, palates also 
y a fact reported in Dr. Livingstone’s Travels in Africa; 
for it is known that, according to Biblical Bt So all the 
inhabitants of that country are descended from Ham; and 
from the Egyptians and from the Classics we learn that the 
first colony coming out of central Asia was that of Menes 
(Mizraim) in 2780 B. C., 666 years after the deluge.* Prof. 
Pott of Halle, in his large learned work concerning all the 
languages of Africa, has demonstrated that all, except two or 
three spoken on the coasts, are related the one with the other 
as sisters, and particularly with the Coptic language, spoken 
since the time of Menes (2781 B.C.) As then, ac- 
cording to Biblical history, the whole of Africa was colonized 
by the Egyptians since Menes, it is probable that all the tribes 
going out of Egypt carried the same arts and sciences with 
them into their own countries, particularly the same method 
of expressing their ideas by figures. Now, Dr. Livingstone 
‘that he met, in central ‘Africa, with a colony in an ex- 
_- may so call it, consists of about. two hundred and eighty 
etters or characters, each peed 8 ay, Ba nting an entire 
syllable ; and these, variously combined, Re a all the 
if Tue ScARABAUS. 
: C 1 i. . is tratislated. i in the Heoweigoes by bing in 
ses “pegs and stands MEY often, ditieteety Sopiee ~ 
oie Beviebtigungen a der alten Geachihte cd sere auf 
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