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One of these revolutions, which is in reality 

 placed much farther from us, is described in terms 

 nearly corresponding with those of Moses *. Mr 

 Wilfort even assures us, that, in another event of 

 the same mythology, a conspicuous place is held 

 hy a personage who resembles Deucalion, in his 

 origin, name, and adventures, and even in the 

 name and adventures of his father f . It is a cir- 



aux Indes, t. i. p. 253. ; Bentley, Calcutta Memoirs, vol. 

 viii. of the 8vo edition, p. 212. This period is only fifty- 

 nine years farther back than the deluge of Noah, according 

 to the Samaritan text. 



* The person named Satyavrata plays the same part as 

 Noah, by saving himself with fourteen saints. See Sir W. 

 Jones, Calcutta Memoirs, vol. i. p. 230. 8vo edition ; also 

 in the Bagvadam, or Bagavata, translated by Fouche d'Ob- 

 sonville, p. 212. 



t Cala-Javana, or, in common language, Cal-Yun, to 

 whom his partisans might have given the epithet, deva, deo, 

 (dieu, god), having attacked Chrishna (the Indian Apollo), 

 at the head of the northern nations (the Scythians, of whom 

 was Deucalion, according to Lucian), was repulsed by fire 

 and water. His father Garga had for one of his surnames 

 Pramathesa (Prometheus); and, according to another le- 

 gend, he was devoured by the eagle Garuda. These parti- 

 culars have been extracted by Mr Wilfort (in his Memoir 

 upon Mount Caucasus, Calcutta Memoirs, vol. vi. p. 507, 

 8vo edition), from the Sanscrit drama, entitled Hari-Vansa. 

 Mr Charles Ritter, in his Vestibule of the History of Eu- 

 rope before Herodotus, concludes that the whole fable of 

 Deucalion was of foreign origin, and had been brought into 



