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physical objects or their emblems. 
The ear, eye, nose, tongue and hand 
for the 5 senses. The triangle for 
the earth, fish for the sea or water, 
snake for the air, flame for fire. A 
circle for the sun, crescent for the 
moon, a sword for Mars, a purse 
for Mercury, the V for Venus, dou- 
ble ring for Saturn, and trident for 
Jupiter. Venus being the 5th planet 
has nearly the same sign as U the 
5th letter. 
These physical emblems are so 
natural and obvious, that, they are 
sometimes found among many of the 
ancient alphabets; the sun and moon 
even among the Chinese. But in 
the Egyptian alphabets, the emblems 
apply very often to different letters, 
owing to the difference of language 
and acrostic feature. Thus the hand 
applies to D in Egyptian instead ofi 
I might have given and compared 
several other Lybian alphabets found 
in inscriptions; but as they have been 
delineated without a key nor names, 
it is at present very difficult to de- 
cypher them. I however recommend 
them to the attention of the learned, 
and among others, point out the Ly- 
bian inscription of Apollonia, the 
harbour of Gyrene, given byLaceila 
in his travels in the Cyrenaica. The 
letters of this inscription appear more 
numerous than 16 or even £2, and 
although they have, some analogies 
with the £ Lybian alphabets, yet 
approximate still more to the Demo- 
tic of Egypt and the Phenician. 
But the inscriptions in Mount Atlas 
and atEarawan, when collected and 
decyphered, will be found of much 
greater historical importance. 
III. Meantime in the column No. 
U, the eye to R 
snake to L, &c 
II. The second Lybian alphabet 
No. £, in the Tables, was the an- 
cient alphabet of Tuarics, a modern 
branch of the Atlantes, until super- 
seded by the Arabic. Denham found 
with some difficulty its import, and 
names of letters which are not 
acrostic but literal, and 1 8 in num- 
ber. It is doubtful whether these 
names were well applied in all in 
stances, as the explainer was igno- 
rant and Denham not aware of the 
importance of this alphabet. Some 
appear not well named and U with 
V have the same sign W; but these 
are always interchangeable in old 
language, and in alphabet No. 1 
V is called UAE instead of VAF, 
and XT is VULD instead ofUULD! 
As we have it, this alphabet is 
sufficiently and obviously derived 
from the First, 11 out of the 16 let- 
ters being similar or nearly so, while 
only 5 are different, E, M, R, G and 
Z. This last appears the substitute 
of TH, of No. 1, and GH represents 
G. Yet they are by far more alike 
than the Demotic is from the Hi- 
eratic Egyptian, and I therefore 
deem this No. £ a Demotic form of 
the ancient Lybian or Atlantic* 
the circle to O, thejs of the tabular view are given 46 
Elements of the Glyphs of Otolum 
or Palenque, a few of these glyphs 
being given also in column No. 4. 
These 46 elements are altogether 
similar or derived from the Lybian 
prototypes of No. 1 and £. In some 
cases they are absolutely identic, and 
the conviction of their common ori- 
gin is almost complete, particularly 
when taken in connection with the 
collateral proofs of traditions and 
These elements are 
somewhat involved in the grouping, 
yet they m hj easily be perceived and 
separated. Sometimes they are or- 
namented by double lines or other- 
wise, as monumental letters often are. 
Sometimes united to outside numbers 
represented by long ellipses meaning 
10 and round dots meaning unities, 
which approximates to the Mexican 
system of graphic numeration. Be- 
sides these 46 elements, some others 
may be seen in the glyphs, which I 
left off, because too intricate; al- 
though they appear reducible if a 
larger table could have been given. 
There is hardly a single one that 
may not be traced to these forms, or 
that baffles the actual theory. There- 
fore the conclusion must occur, that 
such astonishing coincidence cannot 
