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publication of "The Nabathsean Agricul- 

 ture ' in the times of Nebuchadnezzar, is 

 met again feature for feature in the Arsa- 

 cidan or Sassinidan book of Tenkelusha. 

 Can it be admitted that in fifteen, or even 

 in eight centuries (to confine ourselves to 

 the calculation adopted by our deceased 

 brother, M. Quatremere, nothing should 

 have been altered in Babylon, and that 

 two works composed at such a long interval 

 should evince so striking a resemblance ? 

 A deduction of the same kind, and decisive, 

 may be drawn from the very title of the 

 work. The author, after the epithet .JuLM, 

 puts that of <J^y^- Dr. Chwolson considers 

 that this epithet designates a School; 1 and 

 I will not argue the point with him. But 

 Kuthami too assumes the title of tJlSyiM. 

 Yarbuka, much more ancient, according to 

 Prof. Chwolson, also bears the same epithet 

 of fcJlSjiiH. Can any one conceive it probable 

 that the same school should have continued 

 for two thousand years, and that, by some 



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