Part 48 (1/2)

_Syns or sys

_Deciphered_, read, understood, ible_, that cannot be understood

_Expounded_, explained, interpreted

Were Hieroglyphics e?

They were undoubtedly employed at first from necessity, not froht of, if alphabetical characters had been known This style of writing , which had previously been used Hieroglyphics were eyptian priests in after ti, peculiar to theive an air of h fallen into disuse for other purposes

What ?

The Eastern nations used tables of stone, brass, and wood, so that the characters were engraved instead of being written in the usualon wood, was made of metal, and called a _style_ For stone, brass, &c, a chisel was employed When the bark and leaves of trees, skins, and other materials of a more pliant nature, superseded the above-naave way to the reed and cane, and afterwards to the quill, the _hair_ pencil (as now used by the Chinese,) and the convenient lead pencil

_Engraved_, inscribed with the graver, a tool used in engraving on stone, &c

_Pliant_, yielding, easily bent

Have not the various nations a whom this useful art has been cultivated, adopted different ways of arranging their written characters?

Yes The Hebrews, Chaldeans, Syrians, Arabians, and Egyptians, begin each line on the right side, and write towards the left The Greeks, Latins, and all European nations, write froht The natives of China, japan, Cochin China, Corea, &c, write froe

Where are Cochin China, and Corea?

Cochin China is a country situated in Eastern Asia Corea is a peninsula of Asia, subject to China

What is e of anything founded on self-evident principles, or demonstration The term is, however, ee, and is employed in this sense in opposition to art: thus the theoretical knowledge of chemistry is ranked as a science, but the practical part is called an art; thus it is sometimes spoken of as a science, so to action, not merely speculative

What is Chemistry?

A science which enables us to discover the peculiar properties of natural bodies, either in their simple or compound state, and the elementary or first principles of which they are composed, by the processes of analysis and coes in natural bodies which are not accompanied by _sensible_ motions

_Compound_, mixed