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terpret the same group an indefinite number of ways,” I com- 
mit it to the world to crown such truths, as soon as they are 
prove 
Furt urther, “on sues charges me with “hunting after He- 
brew and Chal words” in explaining hieroglyphs. Per- 
aps, however, iL Seloon: to that class of savans who take 
the Hebrew for a modern language, and the Sanserit, or Ja- 
Mexican dialects, where adon sounded like brek-kek-kek- 
koaks ne aks ; ; and for deciphering that pishte aces a root 
like y, y; Vs Ys y; yy i, d, €, 0, u, king-kang-kun 
He also reproaches me with “having, Cea of facilitating 
the translation of Egyptian texts, cast it into impenetrable 
darkness.” Indeed, in the times of the Jesuit her, who 
ascribed to each hierogl h an indefinite number of ideas ac- 
cording to his fancy, Sof a translated the Roman Obelisks, 
it was a very easy thing to translate entire texts. In the 
times of ag “ was nea — the same; for the half of 
