HELIOPOLIS. 
up the face of the obeUsk, upon the left hand, 
placed by the side of an axe or hatchet. The 
sort of staff, capped with the representation of 
an animal's head, which is seen in the hands 
of Egyptian deities among their hieroglyphic 
figures, and frequently delineated upon Greek 
vases, as a badge of distinction worn by Grecian 
Hierarchs, is yet in use among the Patriarchs 
and Bishops of the Greek Church ; and this may 
be observed in two instances upon the Helio- 
politan pillar. For the rest, the reader, if he 
have patience for the inquiry, may be re- 
ferred to Kircher': who has written a particular 
First Part of these Travels. Alludinfc to the account «;ivvn in p. 3'2() 
<}( Vol. I. (8w. edit.) of a two-stringed lyre represented in the Cnhmtck 
paintings, Mr. Knight said that he considered this instrument to be 
the same which Homer mentions, under the name of '^o^y-iyl- 
Toio'tf 111 ftlo'ffsiiri Tat; (pi^fiiyyi Xiytim 
'Ifii^etr xi^doi^s. Iliad. 2.569. 
(4) J'id. Sipitagrna viii. Thent. Hieroglyph. CRdipi uTlgyptiaci, 
^>«». 111. /;. .330. R(mi.\(JM. Kircher's account of this obeli.yfc in 
divided into four distinct chapters: 1. " Be origine Olteiisci Ntdioyn- 
litrtni." 2. " De errctione et men.surd Ohelisci." ,1. " /Irnnvientvni 
hujus Ohelisci." 4. Interp^-elatio Ohelisci." Of these, t!ie read<'r 
will in all probability rest satisfied with the two first: these, beini>- 
historical, are valuable. An examination of Kircher's work will offer 
a striking example of the patient research and amazinj,^ ernditiou 
which characterized the learned labours of tin' Jesuits ; but when he 
pTOceeds to the interpretation of the hierngbjphics in detail, his reve- 
ries may be cotn]iarcd to the feverish dreams of a scholar, who, from 
intense api>licatiou to his studies, is visitcil with a continual recur- 
rence i)\' postulates unattended by a single conclusion. 
