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, § 10. Rather than _before_, I should translate, _through the action of_.

5. “Electron” is Lepsius’s translation. Renouf, who translates “copper,” has discussed the point in a letter to Lepsius (_Life Work_, Vol. II, p. 2).

6. I believe this means made of black metal, probably silver, blackened by some chemical process.

7. Papyrus Ebers ⁂⁂ “foramen ani, rectum.”

8. The text has here ⁂ an evident blunder. We should read here the phallus.

9. Brugsch, _Dict. Suppl._, p. 1021, translates ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _aati_, “Bettenmacher.”

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PLATE LIX.

BOOK OF THE DEAD.

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