"The fourth character in the hieroglyphic cartouche of Cleopatra, representing _a flower with a stalk bent back_ (or a knop), corresponds to the _Omicron_ 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 _Omicron_. "The fifth sign is in the form of _a square_. It here represents the _Pi_, and is the same with the first sign in the hieroglyphic name of Ptolemy. "The sixth sign, corresponding to the Greek vowel _Alpha_ in Cleopatra, is _a hawk_; which of course ought not to be found in the name of Ptolemy (as it has no letter _Alpha_), and it is not. "The seventh character is an _open hand_, representing the _Tau_; but this hand is not found in the hieroglyphic name of Ptolemy, where _Tau_, 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 _Rho_, 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 _Alpha_, 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.