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Paradise, for which a map is already ordered of Kie- 

 pert.* Maps on the opinions of people may range 

 from the ship-bindingf myth on the seashore and 

 Himalaya to Ararat, and to Aramea Kibotos,J even to 

 the Mexican Ooxeox; fanciful productions of fiction, 

 which are known also to the Bible of the Mormons. 

 (See inclosure.) 



The Weimar fancies are of a more merry de- 

 scription ; command of climate, by means of Crystal 

 Palaces, which at the same time are taverns, super- 

 seding Nice and Madeira, and costing only one and 

 a-half million thalers a pleasure-ground in the deso- 

 late barrack-city of Potsdam ! And such a scheme 



* Kiepert, Cartographer and Professor of Geography at the University of 

 Berlin. 



f Compare the Sanskrit " naubandhanam," "shipbinding" from "nan," 

 nwuis, "bandh," to bind; the name of the peak of the Himalaya mountain, 

 to which the Indian Manu at the deluge fastened his ship. See " Die Siind- 

 flut nebst drei anderen der wichtigsten Episoden des Maha-Bharata. Aus 

 der Ursprache iibersetzt von Franz Bopp." (Berlin, 1829), p. 9, verse 49. 

 TR. 



J A city in Phrygia. A number of coins of the times of Septimus Severus 

 and of his successors, show a chest (KI^CCT^S) swimming on the waves, and 

 in it are a man and a woman ; a dove is sitting on the chest, a second, with 

 a twig in its claws, flying near at hand. On the land, close by, the same 

 pair of human beings are seen in a posture of prayer. On the chest are 

 inscribed the two Greek letters, Nil evidently NOAH. In the Sybilline books 

 the circumstance is alluded to as follows : 



Assurgit Phrygia3 mons quidam in finibus atrae, 



Arduus, alta petens, Ararat quern nomine dicunt, 



Quod fatale fuit illic evadere cunctis, 



Optataque frui tandem charaque salute : 



Fluminis unde alti Marsyae manat origo. 



Hujus in excelso postquam cessantibus undis 



Constitit area jugo, tune illi rursus ab alto 



Ingens Immensi vox et audita Tonantis. 



2tj8uAAto/cot XpyafjLot, " Sibyllina Oracula," edit. Gallasi. Amsterdam, 1689. 

 Pp. 159-60. TR. 



Coxcox, the Mexican Noah, or Deucalion. TR. 



