Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c., and one of the eight foreign Associates of the National Institute of France.

  • Thomas Young
Date:
1855
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Credit: Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c., and one of the eight foreign Associates of the National Institute of France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    b.-Extract of a Letter from Mr. Akerblad to Dr. Young. Dated Rome, 15 December, 1814. Translation. I TAKE the first opportunity of sending you a Dissertation, [on the Lamina Dodwelliana, j mentioned in the letter which I have been writing to you. I am not much attached to the conjectures expressed in it, respecting the Egyptian origin of the letters added in later times to the Greek alphabet; and you may treat them as severely as you please, if, as I am inclined to suppose, they should not meet your approbation. You will observe that, in the 48th page, I have cited an Egyptian word [N. 60], which may be written K^-pHT in Coptic; it is without doubt the same to which you attribute the sense of BAPI2 in Greek. * * 6.—Extract of a second Letter from Mr. Akerblad to Dr. Young. Dated Rome, 31 January, [1815.J Translation. I RECEIVED, about two months ago, the letter which you did me the honour to write on the 21st of August. You must excuse my delay in answering it, for it has required some time to resume my application to pursuits, of which I had long lost sight. At last I am ready to perform the task which you have imposed on me, and to give you an account of what I have long ago observed, respecting the Egyptian part of the Inscription of Rosetta : and I am assured, by the obliging manner in which you address me, that you will receive with indulgence all my opinions and all my doubts. During the ten years which have elapsed since my departure from Paris, I have devoted but a few moments, and those at long intervals, to the monument of Rosetta: a monument, which, at its first discovery, appeared to attract the attention of
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