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ccurring among the witnesses; and I easily recognized the groups which he had deciphered; although, instead of Antiochus, I read Antimachus; and I did not recollect at the time that he had omitted the m.'
Now comes the strange part of the story.
' In the evening of the day that Mr. Grey had
brought me his manuscripts,' proceeds Dr. Young
(whose English, by the way, is in places slightly
questionable), 'I proceeded impatiently to examine that which was in Greek only; and I could scarcely believe that I was awake and in my sober senses, when I observed among the names of the witnesses Antimahcus Antigenis (sic); and a few lines farther back, Portis Apollonii; although the last word could not have been very easily deciphered without the assistance of the conjecture, which immediately occurred to me, that this manuscript might perhaps be a translation of the enchorial manuscript of Casati. I found that its beginning was, "A copy of an Egyptian writing"; and I proceeded to ascertain that there were the same number of names intervening between the Greek and the Egyptian signatures that I had identified, and that the same number followed the last of them. The whole number of witnesses was sixteen
in each I could not therefore but conclude,'
proceeds Dr. Young, after dwelling on other points equally demonstrative of the identity of the Greek and enchorial inscriptions, 'that a most extraordinary chance had brought into my possession a document which was not very likely, in the first place, ever to have existed, still less to have been preserved uninjured, for my information, through a period of near two thousand years; but that this very extraordinary translation should have been brought safely to Europe, to England, and to me, at the very moment when it was most of all desirable to me to possess it, as the
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