the rest, the improvement consists chiefly in sweeping away the errors into which his love of Zend analogies had at first hurried him. The only addition he made to the number of his correct values was _thr_, suggested by Grotefend, to which, as we have said, he had previously nearly approached. The remaining signs now correctly represented are due to M. Beer and M. Jacquet, who wrote in the interval that separated the two Memoirs by Lassen. Lassen’s translations are naturally much affected by the nine incorrect values he still retained, and by the errors he introduced himself. Yet if we compare the transliteration and translation of the Le Bruyn No. 131, as given by Burnouf and Lassen, we cannot fail to recognise the superiority of the latter. For the ‘Bu izrk’ of the one we have ‘Baga wazark’ of the other, which closely anticipates the ‘Baga vazraka’ of the correct version. The ‘Omam buiom,’ the ‘Homa excellent,’ is replaced by ‘imam buvam,’ ‘this earth;’ and many similar improvements may be noted throughout. Both writers succeeded fairly well in rendering the simple phrases, but great diversity still existed as to the meaning of the obscurer passages. Both alike declare that Auramazda is the creator of heaven and of man; and that he has established Darius or Xerxes as King. But when we proceed to the second paragraph of the inscription our translators go far astray. The passage beginning ‘king of countries’ is thus variously rendered:[467] B. oahunâm pl. ôznânam. L. dᵃnghunâm ps‘uwᵃznânâm. S. dahyunâm . par’uv . zanânâm. _Trans._ B. [roi] des provinces qui produisent les braves. L. [rex] populorum bene parentium. S. [König] der Länder die aus vielen Stämmen bestehen [or more simply by Menant: des pays bien peuplés]. B. âahâhâ buîôhâ izrkâhâ rurôh âpôh. L. aᵃnghâhâ bu‘mihâ wᵃzᵃrkâhâ d’uriᵃh âpyᵃh. S. ahyâyâ . bu‘miyâ . vazrakâyâ . d’uraiy . apiy. _Trans._ B. [roi] du monde excellent, divin, redoutable, protecteur. L. [rex] existentis orbis terrarum magni, sustentator, auctor. S. [König] dieser grossen Erde auch fernhin [or, with Menant: ‘de cette vaste terre (qui commande) au loin et auprès’].