[791] Exposé, p. 44.
[792] Ib. p. 73.
[793] Exposé, p. 58.
[794] Ib. pp. 56, 73.
[795] See No. 21 of Hincks, where it is unnoticed. Cf. Exposé, p. 28.
[796] Exposé, pp. 27, 85-6. Cf. Transactions, xxi. 247.
[797] He instances the word for ‘earth,’ p. 86.
[798] ‘Lettre à Löwenstern,’ loc. cit. p. 506.
[799] Rawlinson thus describes Botta’s labours. He has been employed in ‘constructing a complete table of variants, the frequent repetition of the same word with orthographical variations furnishing him with a key to the equivalent signs: and by these means he has succeeded, he informs me, in reducing the Assyrian alphabet to some manageable compass.’—J. R. A. S. 1846, x. 29.
[800] Journal Asiatique, 1848, March, xi. 245.