DISCOVERIES IN HIEROGLYPHICS, 643 AND Other Antiquities. IN PROGRESS TO WHICH FAVORITE COMPOSITIONS ARE PUT IN A LIGHT NOW ENTIRELY NEW, AS WELL AS MORE INSTRUCTIVE, TO READERS OF EARLIER TIMES. BY ROBERT DEVERELL, ESQ. ITH ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX WOOD ENGRAVINGS, ARY NEW-YORK PRINTED BY J. GILLET, CROWN-COURT, FLEET-STREET; D SOLD BY W. CLARKE, BOND-STREET; PAYNE, PALL-MALL; TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD; AND HAMILTON, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1813. ABOUT seven years ago I printed several issertations, the object of which was to shew that the classic writings and the arts of the ancients, have a constant relation to the sciences; but, well knowing that in bringing such copious subjects under so new a point of view, mistakes must at first be unavoidable, I refrained from publishing those dissertations, and adopted a middle course, by giving away about a hundred copies of them, to various classes of readers. The conclusions to which they led, (among others not less novel,) were these, "That in "all the classics, and in the different specimens of the arts which have come down to us from the ancients, no part of any of 66 66 ઃઃ them is to be understood, without supe posing that they are mere vehicles of knowledge, not intended to meet the eye or the understanding on the first inspec tion or perusal ;" and "that this mysterious, or enigmatical method of composi "tion exists in other voluminous writings "of a much later date than those which are "commonly called classics.". In a future volume of this undertaking I shall resume the consideration of some of the details presented in those dissertations, to which the intermediate volumes will be no unfit introduction. If those intermediate ! volumes should appear at first sight to have no very close connection with the general title of the book, such a connection will be more manifest hereafter. It will be unnecessary to say more here, when I shall have brought to the reader's recollection the 4 |