The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia
Charles Forster's 1851 London treatise (R. Bentley) arguing for a single original language, aimed at biblical scholars and antiquarians reading Sinai, Egyptian, Etruscan and South Arabian inscriptions. The plates are outline engravings copied from monuments: cartouches and hieroglyph columns, profile figures of kings and gods in crowns, tomb-wall scenes of herded cattle and offering bearers, and rows of transcribed Semitic letterforms usable as ornament, borders, or lettering reference.
