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Rh complete proof that these etymologies are worthy of no confidence than the facility with which they are contrived. Jablonski has experienced no difficulty in producing a compound appellative in the Coptic language, corresponding not only with every name, but with every fancied explanation of it that can be traced in the ancient writers.

Perhaps we ought to have mentioned the remains of sculpture and painting, among the most valuable resources for illustrating the mythology of Egypt. This is a source which is still open, and whence we may hope to derive more than has yet been obtained. If modern researches should succeed in unfolding the mystery of the hieroglyics, which seems now more than every probable, the remains of sculpture and painting will acquire a degree of importance which we are not at present able to appreciate.