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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 (1851)

Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 238

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nsons Egypt,or of the Supplement to the Second Series ofhis Manners and Customs of the AncientEgyptians, we meet two tablets with fruit-trees as their principal feature, and self-evi-dently containing a mystic history. I proceedto lay before my readers the internal indica-tions supplied by both… … fruit, and flowers, and by the name raman^Malum punicum, written immediately over it. 206 THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. In the middle of the tree stands the figure of aAVoman, with a tray of pomegranates in her righthand, and a flaggon with a spout in the left, outof which she pours a stream of the…

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