156 HELIOPOLIS. 
CHAP, calls Hieralpha: and although Pamm; have proved 
' this pomt, perhaps beyond dispute, yet some- 
thing may still be added in its confirmation. 
The sort of hand-plough, represented as a sceptre 
in the hands of the priests and kings of Egypt\ 
is still used by many of the Celtic tribes. The 
author has also seen it in Lapland. It has this 
form, V which precisely corresponds (although 
in an inverted position) with the sort of scep- 
tre mentioned by Diodorus, and denominated 
Hieralpha by Kircher. There are also a few sym- 
bols rendered interesting in the representations 
they offer of instruments still used by modern 
nations, without any deviation from their most 
Testudo. antient form : such, for example, as the Testudo, 
or Cichara, of the Antients, a two-stringed lyre, 
constructed of the shell of a land-tortoise, com- 
mon to all the shores of the Mediterranean. It 
corresponds with the Balalaika of the Russiansy 
and is in use among the Cahnucks''. This instru- 
ment is believed to be the WPMIFH of 
Horner^. It may be observed about half way 
{\) PMosnph. Diss.^-c. ihid. Vid. Diod. Sic. lih.'w. Tilullus, lib.'i. 
" Primus aratra manu solerti I'tcit Osiris, 
Et tenerain ferro solicitavit iiuinum." 
(2) See Part I. of these Tia\els, Chap. XII. p. 244. Second Edit. 
(3) Tlie author is indebted for this observation to a letter he 
received froi" H. P. Kni!;ht, Esq. soon after the publication of the 
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