been taken at the expence of the Society of Antiquaries, London,) he differs materially from his friend: but he expresses a desire of having his own opinion submitted to the severest scrutiny. In addition to the probability of his hypothesis, he has employed much patience and ingenuity in applying it to different parts of the Inscription; and if he has not succeeded in developing the whole of it, his remarks, as far as they reach, wil not be undervalued by those who are desirous of understanding this curious vestige of antiquity :-a stone which, as containing the same decree engraven in the sacred, in the common Egyptian, and in the Greek characters, must assist more than any other circumstance to explain the Hieroglyphics. After having proceeded in his attempt to ascertain the reading of many words in the Egyptian Inscription by the help of the Coptic tongue as his guide, the author endeavours to account for the limited success which has attended his exertions: Independently of the Egyptian words, which I have discovered in the various Coptic dialects, a great number will be found which bear no analogy to that language, though of their true reading I have little doubt. This ought not to surprize those who know how limited are the subjects on which the Coptic books now in our possession treat. They consist only of translations of the Bible, of liturgies, homilies, martyrologies, psalms, &c. the low and vulgar style of which must necessarily differ from the elevated language of a decree composed in the name of all the Hierarchy of Egypt, and designed to perpetuate the remembrance of the exploits and beneficence of one of her kings. Moreover, a multitude of Greek terms, adopted into the Coptic language, especially since the introduction of Christianity, have insensibly supplanted the Egyptian words, and caused them to be forgot ten. The Copts, for instance, employ the Greek terms for law, image, &c. while the equivalent words in Coptic have disappeared from their language. These terms, and others equally unknown in the modern idiom, are to be seen in the Inscription; which, in its turn, admits expressions derived from the language of the court of the Ptole mies, which the Copts do not appear to have preserved in their's, but of which they express the sense by words belonging to their own vernacular tongue. If to these considerations are also subjoined the circumstances, that an interval of several ages elapsed between the engraving of the inscription and the most antient compositions in the Coptic language, and that during this period the language would ne cessarily vary, we shall not be much astonished at the difference ob. servable between the idiom of the Inscription and that of the Copts.' In the prosecution of his researches in this department of literature, the author informs us, he has laid the ground-work of a Thebaic Dictionary. A letter in reply from M. de Sacy is added, in which he highly compliments M. AKERBLAD on the ingenuity of his analysis; though he takes the liberty of expressing a doubt respecting the accuracy of some particular parts. Moy. INDEX To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the Α ADVERSITY, ode to, 95. Amber, or electrum and succinum of the antients, remarks on, 472. 258. Apocalypse, arguments for the au- Aurora Borealis, rem. on that phænomenon, 423. APP. REV. VOL, XLV. B Bacon, Lord, some remarks on his Bailey, Mr. on ploughing up Bazee-gurs, account of, 311. unfavourable report C Canals, grand project for, 187. 7-10. Carthage, its conquest by Rome Cattle, horned, epidemic disease Caucasus, antient, limits of, 310. Cheltenham, analysis of a new cha- Christie's Will, or William Arm- strong, anecdote of, 129. Education in France, present state -, good remark on, 360. Elbe and Weser, remarks on the blockade of those rivers, 187. Eloquence of the bar, remarks on, Emigrants, French, various re- marks on their views, charac- Eusebius, his testimony respecting Fenelon, Abp. pleasing anecdotes ment of, 428-430. Fox, Mr. various obs. on his po- - censured by Frenc re- volutionary writers, 539. France, its present government Heat. See Pulsation. said to be deprecated by all Henry, prince, of Portugal. See European sovereigns, 191. , Isle of, particulars respect- of that people, 125. 237-246. Galley-fish described, 453. three centuries, 534. work, 527. Gospel, sermon on the joy of be- Grass lands, memoirs on the pro- Visco. Gassendir M. on atmospher Ice, Ice, recommended to more gene- Irrigation obstructed by mills, Juries, that institution regarded K Kaffers, their firmness and cou- that astronomer, 23-30. L Lady of the Black Tower, a tale, Lament of the Border Widow, a Mahometanism, See Mohamme- Malabar, Christians of, account Marle grass, its culture recom. Marriott, John, account of, 445. Mechanics, instances of singular France, in former periods. 488. stance of their prodigious opur- Mercury, its use among the an- tients, for gilding metals, 475 Milton, visit to his house at Fo- Letters, general state of, from Mohammdanism, historical view of 1500 to 1800, 529. circumstances favorable to that |