BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 15 



of the Greek Geoponica, of which there is a 

 Syriac version in the British Museum, being 

 founded on a misunderstanding, it may be 

 dismissed at once. 



A scholar, already known by one of the 

 most important works which Oriental learn- 

 ing has produced of late years, Prof. Chwol- 

 son, of St. Petersburgh, the author of a 

 work on the Sabian Eeligion and the School 

 of Harran, has just taken a decisive step 

 towards the solution of the question which 

 occupies us. Having had access to and con- 

 sulted all the manuscripts of "The Book of 

 Nabatheean Agriculture" which exist in the 

 various libraries of Europe, Dr. Chwolson has 

 made the most perfect copy of it possible, 1 

 and, in order to quiet the impatience of the 

 literary world till the publication of this 

 revised text, he has embodied in a memoir 

 an abstract of the results of his researches. 2 



1 Dr. Chwolson has informed me by a letter, that the Jacuma 

 which remained in his copy at the time of the publication of his 

 memoir has been filled up. The existence of four new manuscripts 

 of "The Xabathaean Agriculture" at Constantinople has been an- 

 nounced. 



2 "Ueber die Ueberreste der Altbabylonischen Literatur in 



