[Footnote 61: Dr. Young has been so good as to examine these inscriptions, but has not succeeded in ascertaining their probable date. He observes, that the two principal inscriptions, Nos. 1 and 2, are clearly tributes of children to the memory of their parents. They seem, from the legal expression “discussi ratiocinio,” to be of the times of the lower empire, these words being applied in the pandect to the settlement of accounts: they each allude to the expenses of some public entertainment. The termination is remarkable for the prayer, that their parents might revisit their descendants on earth, and _make them like themselves_. The names seem to be altogether barbarous: the second character, like a heart, is not uncommonly found in inscriptions standing for a point. No 1. M. CHULLAM et * VARNYCHsan PATER ET Mater MARCHI NIMMIRE Et C. CURASAN QUI EIS HAEC MEMORIAM FECERUNT . DISCUSSIMUS RATIOCINIO; AD EA EROGATUM EST SUMI praetER C . . . . . S IN NUMMO * AEDILIS familIARES NUMERO OVA lactiCINIA OVINa . . . . . deCEM ROSTRATAE . . . . . OPE nAVIBUS E . . . . . VISITENT Et taLES faciaNt. No. 2 must be read nearly thus:— M. FUDEI ET P. PHESULCUM PATER ET MATER M. METUSANIS QUI EIS HAEC MEMORIAM FECIT. DISCUSSI RATIOCINIO; AD EA ERO- GATUM EST SUMI . . . . IN NUMMO * AEDILIS A FAMILIA PRAETER CIBARIAS OMniBUS FELICITER LEGAtas . VISITENT FILIOS ET NEPOTES MEOS ET TALES FACIANT. No. 3. MUNAS II ET MUMAI filii MATRIS MNIMIRA HAEDILEHS. No. 4. NHIABH JUre JURANDO tene- AMUR QUIriTUUM.] [Footnote 62: The following is a loose translation of the document:—“Praise be to the only God, and peace to our Prophet Mohamed, and his followers!—Made free by Rais Khaleel-ben-Inglise, a young black, called Abdelahy, of Mandara, from the hands of Abdi Nibbe-ben-Attaia Towerga, for the sum of thirty-six Spanish dollars, which the said Abdi Nibbe has received—Rais Khaleel giving freedom to the said slave, over whom he has no power, nor any other person whatever; and the said Abdelahy is in full enjoyment of all the privileges of Musselmans. In the presence of us, the parties being in possession of their senses and faculties. Given this 16 Rabbia-attani, 1240, di Hegira—Mohamed-ben-Zein-Abeedeen-ben-Hamet-Ben-Mohamed-Ben-Omeran, Mahmoud-ben-Hagi, Solyman.”] SUPPLEMENTAL CHAPTER ON BORNOU. * * * * *