546 SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
ties. As, however, “few persons would indulge their taste for 
reading a language where this process had to be gone through 
for every successive. word,” I decide again, together with the 
“unmathematic” Mr. G. Lon , “in my senses, not to trouble 
myself about deciphering a hieroglyphic text.” The difficulty, 
however, is entirely got over by Champollion’s determinatives, 
which we must oe oe try ; for, although they were also in one 
hierogl ie f ire, or group planed in a figure, hog 
ed.” For instance, the said third group (victory) is followed 
by a woman, and this, being a sere Sh shows me that 
the victory belonged to the class of women. ys — or 
ure Seteavice the grou lion’s claw 
The same Mag we find after the name ‘of the father of the 
cope gpd pomern atentgead tl 
: a hard n erefore we seg cate om 
to the ane ew whips. The 
* Graikos” ES orien mins followed =o “i “determinative 
longe to the class of penknives. The 
most striking oak hg Champolion’s determinatives, how- 
ever, is his great 
passage in question on nl thus: “There is a house 
thirty cubits long, fifteen cubits wide, and four —_ ~ 
— is the habitation of the departed N.N. in the land ot 
by the 2 of a mae viz., hp é, in order to prevent a 
a —— of the preceding let- 
being am “The great eae: however, 
— Pa 
‘not. being able to. iaacings dl the following groups, and teaching 
: ape determinatives are symbolic,” translated in his Gram- 
mar (and must either give up his system, or ' 
“There is a serpent | 30 cubits i in length, 15 cubits ‘broad and 
4 cubits in height.” This marvellous serpent, p' ane 
 antedilu avian arn car have existed once; for itis to 
ere 
the fac simile 
Gem Pe hp 3 sol ef 
