3G EGYPT. 
CHAP, number at the mouth of the river; also that 
. kind of porpoise which is called dolphin in the 
Levant ; this may be seen sporting in the Nile, 
as high up as the town of Rosetta. The first 
object, after entering the Rosetta branch, is the 
Fort^^ Castle, or Fort St. Julian. In digging for the 
'^"''""' fortifications of this place, the French discovered 
the famous Triple Inscription, now in the British 
Museum': this will be ever valuable, even if the 
only information obtained from it were confined 
to a solitary fact; namely, that the hieroglyphic 
characters do exhibit the writing or the 
PRIESTS of Egypt^. This truth will now no 
longer be disputed ; therefore the proper ap- 
pellation for inscriptions in these characters, 
ought rather to be Hierograms, than Hieroglyphs. 
A surprising number of Turkish gun-boats were 
stationed opposite to Fort St. Julian at the time 
we passed ; and when the beautiful prospect of 
Rosetta opened to our view, the whole surface 
of the river, in front of the town, appeared also 
covered with gun-boats and with djerms. 
Upon our arrival, at five o'clock p. m. we 
(1) See pp. 6, 7. Chap. I. of Volume IV. 8vo.edit. 
(2) See the words of the Greek inscription upon that stone, TOIC 
TE 'IEP0I2 rPAMMASlN. 
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