. The decrees of Memphis and Canopus . Stone, having only been completely identified by the assistance of the analysis of the enchorial inscription. After making the above statements {Account, p. 14),Dr. Young says, As far as I have ever heard or read,^not one of these particulars had ever been established and placed on record, by any other person, dead or alive. In respect of No. 8, it will be rememberedthat Barthelemy and Zoega had said exactly the samething, a fact which seems to show that Dr. Young wasunacquainted with the works of two of the ablest andmost sensible of the early decipherer
. The decrees of Memphis and Canopus . Stone, having only been completely identified by the assistance of the analysis of the enchorial inscription. After making the above statements {Account, p. 14),Dr. Young says, As far as I have ever heard or read,^not one of these particulars had ever been established and placed on record, by any other person, dead or alive. In respect of No. 8, it will be rememberedthat Barthelemy and Zoega had said exactly the samething, a fact which seems to show that Dr. Young wasunacquainted with the works of two of the ablest andmost sensible of the early decipherers of hieroglyphics. As Dr. Youngs Account was published in 1823 itis clear that before this year he himself claimed to havemade translations of the hieroglyphic and enchorialtexts on the Kosetta Stone as early as 1814, and thereis no good reason for doubting his statement, althoughit has been often disputed. It is of course quitepossible that he modified parts of his translations as hebecame more and more familiar with the characters;.
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