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HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING.
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0.—We take the oak; its value in ship building is well
known, and we are writing of a maritime people.
N.—We take a fishing net or the north-star, because these
also are appropriate to a seafaring people.
D. —A ship or the deck of a ship, is obviously the proper
selection.
Hence the word London would be hieroglyphically delineated
by a 2-ion, o-ak, n-et, t?-eck, (o not repeated, on the principle
of omitted vowels,) ?z-orth-star.
Another ingenious illustration of this mode of selecting
homophones is furnished by Mr. Gliddon in his Lectures. He
takes the word America, and thus proceeds:
A.—We might select one out of many more or less appro-
priate symbols; as an asp, apple, altar, amaranth,
anchor, archer, arrow, antelope, axe. I choose the
asp, symbolic of sovereignty.
M.—We have a mace, mast, mastiff, moon, mouse, mum-
my, musket, maize. I select the mace, indicative
of " military dominion." ■ ,
E. —An ear, egg, eagle, elk, eye. The eagle %^
is undoubtedly the most appropriate, being the na-
tional arms of the Union, and it means "courage."
ft.—A rabbit, ram, racoon, ring, rock, rope. I take the
ram, by synechdoche placing a part for the
whole, emblematic of frontal power—intellect—and
sacred to Amun.
I- An insect, Indian, infant, ivy. An infant lj| will
typify the juvenile age and still undeveloped strength
of this great country.
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0.—We take the oak; its value in ship building is well
known, and we are writing of a maritime people.
N.—We take a fishing net or the north-star, because these
also are appropriate to a seafaring people.
D. —A ship or the deck of a ship, is obviously the proper
selection.
Hence the word London would be hieroglyphically delineated
by a 2-ion, o-ak, n-et, t?-eck, (o not repeated, on the principle
of omitted vowels,) ?z-orth-star.
Another ingenious illustration of this mode of selecting
homophones is furnished by Mr. Gliddon in his Lectures. He
takes the word America, and thus proceeds:
A.—We might select one out of many more or less appro-
priate symbols; as an asp, apple, altar, amaranth,
anchor, archer, arrow, antelope, axe. I choose the
asp, symbolic of sovereignty.
M.—We have a mace, mast, mastiff, moon, mouse, mum-
my, musket, maize. I select the mace, indicative
of " military dominion." ■ ,
E. —An ear, egg, eagle, elk, eye. The eagle %^
is undoubtedly the most appropriate, being the na-
tional arms of the Union, and it means "courage."
ft.—A rabbit, ram, racoon, ring, rock, rope. I take the
ram, by synechdoche placing a part for the
whole, emblematic of frontal power—intellect—and
sacred to Amun.
I- An insect, Indian, infant, ivy. An infant lj| will
typify the juvenile age and still undeveloped strength
of this great country.