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and now in the Britiih Mufeum. With thefc engravings it hath in common the fcven Egyptian figures on the one fide, viz. The Holy Ape, the Cat or Bubaftes, the Dog or Anubis, the Bull or Apis, the Ram or Amrnon, the Hare and Afs, cacli figure having its appropriate fymbol at the bottom, which fymbol in the com- partments above is tripled, and then feven times multiplied. On the other fide, where the other feven figures or angels are, the fame fymbol is alfo tripled, and then thrice multiplied. We will take, for inftance, the fymbol under the Ram like a wave. This fymbol is frequently met with on obeliiks, and almoft every Egyp- tian remain on which hieroglyphics are fculptured. It is alfo found upon Etrufcan and Greek vafes, which vafes, as may be prov- ed from the coverings on mummies having many figures in com- mon. This fymbol is generally thought to be expreffive of water, and in Egypt of the Nile. On the Etrufcan or Greek vafes in the princely collection of our celebrated ambaflador at Naples (where it frequently occurs) it is underftood to have the fame fignification. The figures on the other fide are alfo feven. In this and the engravings referred to in the Britifh Mufeum I take it to be a nu- merical talifman of three by feven and three by three." P. S. Since writing the above a coincidence of accidental cir- cumftances hath happened relative to the above fymbol of water I cannot omit mentioning. In company with two captains in his Majefty's navy, the converfation turning upon hieroglyphic writ- ing, they obferved that each of them had been marked at Otaheite with characters, each of which had a meaning there among the natives. Nearly the fymbol above mentioned went round the thickeft part of the leg of one of them. But in the room where ve were converfmg was a very large antique Etrufcan or Grecian vafe of fmgular beauty and elegance. The upper ornament of this vafe and the ornament round the leg were not only nearly, but ex- VOL, XIII. 3 G adly,