"The second sign (a lion in repose which represents the Λ), is exactly similar to the fourth sign in the name of Ptolemy, which, as we have already seen, represents a Λ.
"The third sign in the name of Cleopatra is a feather; which should represent the single vowel Ε, because the two feathers in the name of Ptolemy represent double Epsilon, which is equivalent to the Greek Η. Such is its import. As Greppo remarks in a note, and as has been fully proved by subsequent investigations of Champollion, the sign which resembles two feathers, corresponds also with the vowels Ε, Ι, and with the diphthongs ΑΙ, ΕΙ.
"The fourth character in the hieroglyphic cartouche of Cleopatra, representing a flower with a stalk bent back (or a knop), corresponds to the Ο in the Greek name of this queen. This sign is the very same with the third character in the hieroglyphic name of Ptolemy, which there represents Ο.
"The fifth sign is in the form of a square. It here represents the Π, and is the same with the first sign in the hieroglyphic name of Ptolemy.
"The sixth sign, corresponding to the Greek vowel Α in Cleopatra, is a hawk; which of course ought not to be found in the name of Ptolemy (as it has no letter Α), and it is not.
"The seventh character is an open hand, representing the Τ; but this hand is not found in the hieroglyphic name of Ptolemy, where Τ, the second letter in that name, is represented by a half circle. The reader will see in Note G, why these two signs stand for the same letter and sound.
"The eighth character in the name of Cleopatra, which is a mouth, and which here represents the Greek Ρ, should not be found in the name of Ptolemy, and it is not.
"The ninth and last sign in the name of the queen, which represents the vowel Α, is the hawk, the very same sign which represents this vowel in the third syllable of the same name.
"The name of Cleopatra is terminated by two hieroglyphic symbolical signs, the egg and the half circle, which, according to Champollion, are always used to denote the feminine gender."
These were great advances, and our readers will now easily understand the process by which the distinguished discoverer arrived at his results. Step by step, he has thus been able to form his phonetic alphabet. In September, 1822, he gave an account of his discovery, and of the principles of his system, in a letter to Mons. Dacier, perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions, and of Belles Lettres. In 1824, Champollion published the first edition of his work, "Précis du système hièroglyphique des anciens Egyptiens, ou recherches sur les elémens premiers de cette ecriture sacrée, &c." This is the work which is reviewed in the number of this journal for June, 1827, p. 438. In the year 1828, a second edition of this work was called for, and this second edition is rendered more valuable, by having appended to it the letter to Mons. Dacier.