130 G. MASrERO, 



further nortli. The inversion of the guttural does occasion- 

 ally occur, 

 No. 126. Armaten, " the two Armahs." There are two ruins 

 called £^r Edmeh west of Beth Anoth, which would agree well. 

 No. 127. Galuna or Galenaa (Brugsch) might be the ruin Jala 



further north than any of the preceding. 

 No. 128. Aroma or Alariia perhaps 'Aim, north-west of the 



preceding. 

 These suggestions >vould lead us naturally towards Jerusalem, 

 which M. Maspero considers to have been last on the list, the four 

 defaced names being in the vicinity of Betlilehem. 

 No. 129. . . . Ihath might be restored Malhah. 



No. 130 raa perhaps Ephrath (Bethlehem). 



No. 131. Ma . . . Perhaps Maarath now -Bez'i Z/minar. 

 No. 132. Arl . . . Perhaps Kirjath Arim now 'Ernia. 

 No. 133. lura . . . Jerusalem according to M. Maspero. 

 I think the learned Author is to be congratulated on having 

 made this valuable list far more intelligible than it was, and in 

 having set aside several misleading proposals. I would venture to 

 add that he would find more names on the one-inch Survey than 

 on the smaller map published by the Palestine Exploration Fund. 

 As regards the distribution of names, many sheets of the Ordnance 

 Survey, in the Highlands of Scotland, contain fewer than are shown 

 on my Survey in parts of Palestine which are desert." 



A communication was then read from Mr. Trelawney Saunders 

 (who has added to that debt which English geographers are under 

 to him by laying out the water basins, &c., on the well-known 

 map of Palestine published by the Palestine Exploration Fund). 

 After referi'ing to "Mr. Reginald Stuart Poole's article in Dr. W. 

 Smith's Dictionary of the Bible (3 vols., 1863), in which the then 

 known identifications are carefully considered, and the bearing of 

 Shishak's reign on Egyptian and Biblical Chronology is carefully 

 elucidated," he added, "it may be worth attention that No. 58 

 Zaloumim is No. 57 in Poole's table, and the tabular arrangements 

 of the latter seems to suggest its pi-obable accuracy. Dr. Maspero's 

 suggestion of Gath in reference to No. 55 is quite exciting, and is 

 an instance of the prizes that the investigation of Sheshonq's list 

 still has in store for inquirers." 



Ciiptain F. Peteie, F.G.S. — I cannot help alluding to the debt 



