Excerpt from An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews: And of the Original State of the Text of the Hebrew Bible; Containing an Inquiry Into the Origin of Alphabetic Writing; With Which Is Incorporated an Essay on the Egyptian Hieroglyphs Having, in the course of writing this preliminary treatise, lit upon what I believe to be the true key to the deciphering of the Rosetta hieroglyphs, I have been induced to hope that the publication of so much of my w'ork might excite some interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.