550 SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
pres says that those ane contain some mistakes; and 
specimens, printed ten years later, in my nena. 
Schriften der alten Augypter,” although he cites them. 
verybody (even a schoolboy) sees, except the “ orthodox 
school” at Dublin, that whoever states that each hieroglyph 
vy ty 
but two powers toa er figure. What did our find 
do? He tells his faithful readers that I had “attributed to 
ach character 
svery hieroglyphic « 
alphabetical values.” Now, the « sonants,” ac- 
cording to the ancient Greeks, are the nial eos twelve: 4p, 
gckq, dtth, foph, hch, l, m,n, 7, 8, sh, w. «And with 
this key,” continues the jovial man, “it is not difficult to 
to make out the Ten Commandments, the Psalms of f David, 
or modern monument whatever, and in any ni ie 
please.” I do not deny at all that possibility, ny 
the Irish Melodies; se: but geome misrepresentation —_ 
strous to be disc ly call him > faleios who wil 
not Sebueoesiaes that F I — Sone so. 
Furthermore, it is known that the Coptic language, in ia 
sequence of the different dialects spoken in Egypt, is one 
_ the most corrupted languages of the world. Every diction- 
o's) shows that nearly every Coptic word was, in other 
ypt, and in other books, pronounced differently. _ = 
shée s writte - ot, 6, 3 
Cove: sheers shéli, shere, she; rés, rocis, rois; 7% 
ret, rét, réti, i roti, rt ; hun, khun 5 peh, pheh; tsamul tl, 
, 
: 3 
L 
‘dshay al ; ke 
lonary, £ deemed it necessary, concerm 
lained in my Grammar, to show what 
