552 SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
posing he told the truth—and, certainly, a Rey. 
the Catholic University of Ireland never lies,—it would be 
repetition, from the preceding 
iChramotali 
true groups, mouth, boundary-stone, water, house, mouth, feet, 
—i. e., Aro n alei (oratio de magistratu )—with which group 
nearly all chapters in the “Todtenbuch” and in my “Chresto- 
mathia” begin. I corrected that erratum upon the proo 
sheets myself, but the fault was the lithographer’s; thus -_ 
two wrong hieroglyphic groups remained, while the pai ge 
kro n alet (oratio de magistratu) referred to the en 
groups. The Rev. Reviewer knew that; he knew to W rs 
groups the words hro n alei, and their traslation, “oratio 
magistratu,” belonged; he says even that those wrong ee 
(tree, owl, snake, mouth, mount, arm), in the fifth text, a 
by a curious coincidence together in the very last line of 1“ 
fourth text;” he had the original, Lepsius Todveabaely © 
hand, and looked in it; he knew with what groups all ir 
chapters begin ; notwithstanding his declaration, “it ao 
much matter which text we select,” he selected two pri of 
system is “ridiculous 0 
this fabrication, the Rev. Mr. Renouf 
inters’ errors is quite new in the history 
