[545] Trans. R. I. Acad. loc. cit. pp. 242, 244, 253.
[546] In Journal of Sacred Literature, 1855; J. R. A. S. (1866), vol. ii.
[547] Trans. R. I. Acad. loc. cit. p. 243.
[548] Ib. p. 233; J. R. A. S. x. lxx.
[549] Athenæum, December 19, 1846.
[550] It took forty-four days to communicate between Bagdad and London. If, therefore, Hincks’s paper had been forwarded earlier, say on June 12, it would have been in Major Rawlinson’s hands on July 26; but we have positive assurance on Mr. Norris’s authority that this was not the case. See the Athenæum, loc. cit.
[551] See above, [pp. 229], [244]; Holtzmann, pp. 60, 78.
[552] Trans. R. I. Acad. loc. cit. pp. 117-18.
[553] Ib. p. 124; cf. Spiegel, E Inscription, line 18, p. 60.
[554] Trans. R. I. Acad. loc. cit. p. 116. For Hincks’s Alphabet see Trans. R. I. Acad. loc. cit. p. 131 and App. A.