Edward Everett

during which, I was without a physician, till an Arab cured me with the juice of an herb with which I was unacquainted?' M. Lelorrain had nearly been defrauded of the fruits of his labor in the moment of reaping them. While engaged with his three saws, a gentleman whom he calls ‹ M. Brodich, the American envoy, and whom we presume to be our ac- complished countryman, Mr Bradish, passed by Denderah and gave information to Mr Salt of what was going forward. Mr Salt is not of a temper patiently to acquiesce while unli- censed travellers thus 'molest his ancient, solitary reign,' and at his instance an order was soon expedited by the kiaya bey to the kachef of Keneh, forbidding M. Lelorrain to remove the planisphere. The remarks of our author on this subject are mischievously candid. * As the ruins of Denderah are in the part of Egypt, of which Salt has reserved to him- self the exclusive possession, it is not surprising that he wished to defeat M. Lelorrain's enterprize. The fact is the less remarkable, as Mr Salt contemplated himself the same under- taking, and the instruments destined to effect it arrived at Alexandria, while M. Lelorrain was on his way with his prize between Cairo and that city. The order of the kiaya bey arrived too late; the Zodiac was already upon the Nile. A movement was made to seize the boat in which it was placed, and M. Lelorrain, continues our author, was on the point of los- ing the fruit of his labors, and seeing it pass inevitably into the hands of the English.' At this trying moment, he luckily bethought himself of hoisting a white handkerchief upon a staff over the Zodiac, and thus putting it under the flag of France; the kachef of Keneh was afraid of the kerchief of M. Lelor- rain, and the Zodiac poceed00% 90 *down the Nile. On

News of Champollion's triumph was conveyed to the Americar reading public through the scholars most closely in touch with an- tiquity, the classicists. Charles Anthon introduced scores of Egyptiar entries into his revision of J. Lempriere's Classical Dictionary

Edward Everett wrote about the bas-relief zodiac in the temple of Denderah in the 1823 issue of The North American Review and gave a more extensive account of Egyptian in an article on hieroglyphic:

RICHARD LYMAN BUSHMAN

1831. Thrilled by Champollion's discovery, Everett dismissed the der symbolic interpretation entirely. The work of the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, Everett said, was "utterly baseless" and "laboriusly absurd." He scorned the tendency to find biblical religion interwoven into Egyptian such as the claim that a psalm of David was tried in the zodiac of Denderah. * But not everyone yielded entirely to Champollion's phonetic exanation of the hieroglyphs. The old symbolic interpretation lingered

his labor in the moment of reaping them. While engaged with his three saws, a gentleman whom he calls 'M. Brodich, the American envoy,' and whom we presume to be our accomplished countryman, Mr Bradish, passed by Denderah and gave information to Mr Salt of what was going forward. Mr Salt is not of a temper patiently to acquiesce while unli-