fays, that it does not denote place but time; and it should be conftrued here, in principio, olim, "upon their FIRST journeying." This certainly, makes very good fenfe; it at once removes all the difficulty that has hitherto been found in this paffage, and upon the whole, we are inclined to agree with Mr. P. Several hypotheses had been raifed upon the fenfe generally given to this paffage. Mr. Voltaire, pushing it to the utmost, endeavoured to afcribe the origination of mankind, and of arts, to the most Eastern people, which he faid were the Chinese; not confidering that he might have gone the circle of the globe, and found east and weft to be the fame. Mr. Bryant, ever defirous of eftablishing the truth of facred hiftory, imagined that the journeying from the east was not intended of the great body of Noah's defcendants, but only of a branch of them-his favourite family of Chus, who made this retrograde movement, from fettlements that had been previously made in the Eaft; fo that the difperfion at Babel was a fecond difperfion, affecting only this wandering colony. It must be owned, that all need of fuch theory is at an end, if the Hebrew word, that has caufed them, can be understood in the fenfe here contended for. This difquifition is conducted in a manner that does honour to Mr. Penn, as a fcholar; and we are happy to fee learnedlaymen, who poffefs the leifure attendant on competent fortunes, employ their talents in elucidating points, that are fo interefting to all perfons who believe in revelation. ART. VIII. Conjectures on the Egyptian Original of the Word up, and on its primitive Signification in Greece, in a Letter from Granville Penn, Efq. to Major Oufeley. 4to. Pp. 47. WE E have here an etymological difquifition from a true fcholar of Mr. Bryant's fchool: by which we do not mean to say, that Mr. Penn is a mere follower of that learned gentleman, or that he proceeds upon any of his data, or difcoveries; but that he feems to poffefs a confiderable portion of the learning, fagacity, and enterprize manifested in "The Analyfis of antient Mythology," and applies them to the fame fort of enquiry into the origin of people, and languages, and the changes they have undergone, in their progrefs towards cultivation and improvement. The point here difcuffed is very curious and interefting; he he contends, that the word up is of Egyptian original; and that wegge, which is used for "the fun" in Lycophron, according to the interpretation of all the commentators, is of Egyptian origin; which he establishes very fatisfactorily, by adducing feveral paffages in the Coptic Pentateuch, where wige is ufed for the fun; and by the direct teftimony of Kircher, Woide, and Tablonski, who are fo fkilled in Egypt tian antiquities. In confirmation that the Greeks borrowed this word from foreigners, he cites a declaration to that effect from the Cratylus of Plato. Upon this affumption, which appears to us highly reafonable, that the word aug, formed from wuge, (it being agreed amongst etymologifts, that the radical of words is to be looked for in the oblique cafes, and not in the nominative,) is no other than the Egyptian, Mr. P. proceeds to fhew, ift, How the fignification of that word could have been extended fo far as to embrace both the notions of fire, and of the fun and 2dly, To fhew that, in point of fact, it had, originally, both those fignifications in Greece. These two demonftrations are made out moft fatisfactorily, and are highly deferving the attention of every Greek fcholar, and every lover of research into the myfteries of the fabulous ages. Among other curious researches he seems to establish, that with this Egyptian word there was brought into Greece and Italy not only the worship of the fun, but the true theory of the folar fyftem which Pythagoras owed to much earlier fages, of whose doctrines he was firft the learner, and then the teacher. Earneftly recommending the whole of this entertaining speculation to a serious perufal, we fhall close what we have to fay by extracting a paffage, which fhews how modeftly the author appreciates his own labours : "I fhall protract no farther this long, and, 1 fear, tedious dif cuffion, which I offer as little more than conjecture, and which I abandon to the judgement of the reader; but shall take my leave with the following obfervations :-In all investigations like the prefent, it is the matter brought forward, in the progress of research, which alone gives a value to the profeffed object of enquiry, which is of importance only fo far as it furnishes a centre for adapting and connecting fcattered and infulated fragments of antiquity. But thefe being enabled to unite and contribute their several minute degrees of evidence, frequently conftitute, at laft, a compound body of important teftimony, tending to restore fome order into the confufion, and to diffufe fome light through the obfcurity of the origin of antient history. "Should I not have fucceeded to the fullest extent of my under taking, I flatter myfelf I fhall, at all events, have fixed the quarter from from whence the knowledge of the true folar fyftem was acquired by thofe ancient fages, who carried the fcience of Egypt into the fouth of Italy, and thall alfo have pointed out the equivocation which occafioned its lofs in Greece, and which engendered, in its place, fuch wild and untenable theories. Should I, on the other hand, be fo fortunate as to feem to have made good, as far as the prefent mode of difcuffion will allow, the whole of the argument, we fhall then have acquired a glimpfe of three diftinct points, difcernible even in the obfcurity of the fabulous ages, and indicating three im portant and fucceeding periods of early Grecian hiftory. "ift. When the original occupants of Greece inhabited their country, independent of any foreigners. 2dly. When fubjects of the firft Egyptian Monarchy, (of which nothing remains in the form of history, except in the Mofaic annals, though much in the way of fragment and tradition,) introduced themselves into Italy and Greece, and on the coafts of Afia Minor. "3dly. When, after the extinction of that ancient kingdom, thofe fhores were vifited by tribes of Afiatics from the neighbourhood of Phenicia, and particularly Arabians, of whofe early influence in thofe parts, I may, on a remote occafion, hazard an opinion." We are glad to fee Mr. P. make fuch a promife, and shall, with pleasure, witness the performance of it. POETRY. ART. IX. Bubble and Squeak, a Galli-maufry of British Beef with the Chopp'd Cabbage of Gallic Philofophy and Radical Reform. By the Author of "Topfy-turvy, Salmagundi, &c." 8vo. Pp. 55. Price 25. Wright. Wright. London. 1799. T gave us infinite fatisfaction to behold another offspring of a muse, nal amusement; and high as our expectations were naturally raised, by a recollection of the talents which the bard had previously difplayed, they were by no means difappointed on the perufal of the elegant little work before us. It fhort, the Bubble and Squeak, which the bard has prepared in his poetical frying-pan, can fcarcely fail to please any tafte that has not been vitiated by the chian of Jacobinifm. Of the ingredients of which this favoury difh is compofed, we shall extract fome few, in the hope that they will fo please the palate of our readers as to induce them to purchase the whole. Having defcribed the vain attempt of the infurgents of old, Ty phoeus, Mimas, Rhecus, Porphyrion, and Enceladus, to create a revo lution in the celeftial regions, in order to become directors of Olym pus, pus, and depicted their melancholy fate, he thus invokes a patriot of modern times: "Fam'd ÓRATOR of PALACE YARD, (Like homely jade by beauty-washes +Hung be the Shakspeare's bar with black, The club's conven'd.-Yield day to night! Defunct rebellion's facred duft !" The bard next exhibits two pictures, one of true philosophy, the other of French philosophy, or rather philosophism. "So hails the democratic ftrain, * "See Mr. Fox's Speech at the Whig Club, June 6, 1798." + " Hung be the heav'ns with black,-Yield day to night!" Henry VI. Part I. At I. 1 Philofophy! Philofophy Not thou of old And plenty bloom'd on every bough; Of order, truth, and peace below, Shall be fent packing to the devil. Beneath "La Mort eft un fommeil eternelle." "Inscription for a public burial place decreed by the French Convention, 1793." "Rosemary made a part of the ancient decoration of the Brawn's or Boar's Head, |