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untoward circumstances wi h which they had to contend. I find, to my 
great satisfaction, by the Appendices subjoined to these works, that my 
conjectures respecting the Adulitic inscriptions have been very candidly 
admitted by one of the most celebrated scholars in France, M. Sylve&tre de 
Sacy, whoj in the twelfth volume of the Annales des Voyages,*' has thus 
expressed himself, " II me suffit de dire qu'il (M. Salt) me parait avoir 
^' parfaitement etabli que I'inscription d'Adulis forme reellement deux in- 
" scriptions qui n'ont rien de commun ; que de ces deux inscriptions, celle 
^' qui est gravee sur la chaise de marbre blanc appartient incontestable- 
ment a unroi des Abyssiniens ou Axumites, &c." He afterwards pro- 
ceeds to observe; that he cannot agree with me in opinion, that this was 
erected by Aizana,* for which he gives such convincing arguments, that I 
am induced to think he is right, and if this be the case, the inscription must, 
be attributed, in all probability, to the Emperor El Asguaga, no other 
reign intervening between him and Aizana of sufficient duration to which 
it can be applied. It is worthy of observation that this correction takes it 
back to the period, at which 1 have remarked that a change appears to have 
occurred in the reigning dynasty of ' the Abyssinian emperors, as de- 
noted by the prefixing of the article El to the names of the sovereigns, a 
circumstance that may hereafter lead to a still further elucidation of this 
part of the Abyssinian History ; but I confess that, as yet, I have not suffi- 
ciently consulted the necessary authorities to enable me to enter into a 
discussion on the subject. M. De Sacy has also rightly determined, that 
the figures in the Axum inscription are formed of Greek characters, an 
opinion, which it will be seen t had adopted previously to meeting with 
his valuable remarks ; and I am happy to find, that we besides generally 
aoTce as to the numerals to which the characters refer. 
* Vide p. 465 of this work. 
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