veiy  intensling  fact  ree«ded  by.Diodann.  name-
that  the  knowlMge  of  ptctHre-wrkit^  in  Ethiopia
waa  not  a  privilege  confined  solely  to  die  caste  o(
priests  as  ia  Egypt,  but  that  enry  one  might  attain  it
as  freety  aa  they  might  in'  Egypt  the  writing  in  «om-
■MD  nee.  A  ptoof  atonee  of  Ibft  earlier  ase  of  pic-
tam-writiiWi  or  hieroglypbics,  in  Meroe  than  in  Egypt,
tad  also  of  tea  being  applied  to  the  pnrposes  of  trade.
—It.  The  more  aneisnt  fbm  of  tbe  pyramid,  ap-
pmaohing  that  of  the  primeral  mound,  occars  more  to
the  south  than  tbe  rectilinear  form.  Thus  the  pyra-
mida  of  SMc&ra  are  older  in  form  than  (hose  of  Djism,
•nMiiar  proof  of  architecture's  bsTing  come  in  from
lbs  cooMries  to  the  aonth.  (CUrbt't  TmOt,  vol.
