| m | Norris, | No. | 58 | Weisbach, | No. | 57 | |
| r | ” | ” | 78 | ” | ” | 61 | |
| s | ” | ” | 90 | ” | ” | 45 | |
| s | ” | ” | 94 | ” | Determinative | ||
| t | ” | ” | 38 | ” | No. | 50 | |
| t | ” | ” | 43 | ” | ” | 42 | at |
[655] He attributes this observation to Holtzmann, who wrote in 1851; but Hincks’s opinion was published three years previously in the Trans. R. I. Acad. 1848. Norris had heard of De Saulcy, but did not read him; see J. R. A. S. xv. 153, note.
[656] We have counted 47, ib. pp. 7-46.
[657] See also Nos. 67, 74 (Norris’s list).
[658] For example, Nos. 17, 35, 58.
[659] Oppert takes the credit of this to himself: ‘Depuis 1851, j’avais entrevu l’origine touranienne de l’écriture cunéiforme’ (Les Mèdes, p. 5), but he acknowledges that Norris had suggested it.
[660] M. Oppert claims to have suggested in 1847 that Median belongs to the ‘Finno-ouralienne’ race (Expédition, p. 82). He has not given any reference, and we know of no writing of his of that date except the tract already reviewed: and this opinion does not appear to be stated there.
[661] Cf. J. R. A. S. xv. 63; cf. Weisbach, p. 49.
[662] Cf. Westergaard, Bonn edition, p. 113; Journal Asiatique, xv. 426.
[663] Cf. J. R. A. S. xv. 149; Les Mèdes, p. 197; Weisbach, p. 77.