SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 553 
stone down to 1859, and is ‘really so base that, in our lan- 
what unhappy ; for, as the ambiguity of those very same hie- 
toglyphic figures—although first observed, in 1826, in my 
Radimenta, and first explained in 1845—was discovered by 
Champollion himself, and by the “orthodox school” by their 
“own investigations,” the Reviewer rather lacerates the bow- 
8 of the — master,” and his friends, whom he intended 
fact, this ambiguity is very “fatal” to that sys- 
tem, which taught that each hieroglyph expresses but one 
sound, “comme les lettres de tout autre alphabet,” and “like 
the Hebrew letters,” 
formably to the context; he does so without being aware that 
: by act the same Hebrew consonants are constantly expr 
s. As, however, the Rev. Professor testi- 
is the very nature of the syste 
lilea's Diener a 269, 161, 129, 116, 115. 
