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Based on The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, which sentence from the passage explains why General Menou handed over the Rosetta Stone to General Hutchinson?
At last the British gave in and allowed the scholars to keep the bulk of their collections.
"Without us," they said, "this material is a dead language that neither you nor your scientists can understand."
Reluctantly, General Menou turned it over to the British general, Hutchinson.
"You can have it," he said, "because you are the stronger of us two."

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