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corn, and the other tributes that each nation was to pay, which were not
lefs magnificent, adds Tacitus, than those which the Parthians or the Romans
require at present.
I t appears, therefore, by these teftimonies, that the hieroglyphical characters
were not only to mark abftruse and metaphyseal things, but that they con-
tained the true history of the nation. , And indeed it is from these monuments
that Manetho, the samous hiftorian, who lived in the time of Ptolemy Phil-
adelphia, has drawn the materials of which he compofed his hiftory.
M. Pouch ard was persuaded that, is antiquaries would again apply themselves
serioufly to the ftudy of thofe hieroglyphics, perhaps by making ufe of the
sragments of inferiptions preferved by Ammianus Marcellinus, and of fome
pasfages of the ancients, where mention is made os thefe characters, and of what
they fignify, we might arrive by degrees to a pretty exact knowledge of this
symbolical writing, which would be of wondrous fervice for re-eftablifhing the
ancient hiftory of the Egyptians, that learned nation, from which the Greeks
Iiad learnt all that they have left us of arts and fciences.
APPENDIX H.
corn, and the other tributes that each nation was to pay, which were not
lefs magnificent, adds Tacitus, than those which the Parthians or the Romans
require at present.
I t appears, therefore, by these teftimonies, that the hieroglyphical characters
were not only to mark abftruse and metaphyseal things, but that they con-
tained the true history of the nation. , And indeed it is from these monuments
that Manetho, the samous hiftorian, who lived in the time of Ptolemy Phil-
adelphia, has drawn the materials of which he compofed his hiftory.
M. Pouch ard was persuaded that, is antiquaries would again apply themselves
serioufly to the ftudy of thofe hieroglyphics, perhaps by making ufe of the
sragments of inferiptions preferved by Ammianus Marcellinus, and of fome
pasfages of the ancients, where mention is made os thefe characters, and of what
they fignify, we might arrive by degrees to a pretty exact knowledge of this
symbolical writing, which would be of wondrous fervice for re-eftablifhing the
ancient hiftory of the Egyptians, that learned nation, from which the Greeks
Iiad learnt all that they have left us of arts and fciences.
APPENDIX H.