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taken," or else, " The city of the Temple of the god ]S"iTiip. Its 

 name is the City ot the King was taken, i.e., the words " its name " 

 may refer either to " the City of the King," or to the phrase, 

 "the city of the Temple of Ninip," but in any case, it seems to 

 me, the name applies, and we must regard the three expressions 

 as being in apposition, the Temple of ^Ternsalem at that time 

 being regarded as the Temple of Ninip. 



I am much obliged to Major Conder for his kind remarks, as 

 well as to Canon Girdlestone and the other scholars who have 

 written. I have also received a note from Sir Henry Howorth, 

 who, is unavoidably obliged to be away from London. He says 

 he agrees with the arguments in my Paper, and that it seems 

 incredible that some races should have manufactured an absolutely 

 new god in every locality where they settled. They were local 

 gods, or local names, but apparently forms of one deity, or a 

 small pantheon. They are called gods — they may originally 

 have been saints. 



The meeting was then adjourned. 



REMARKS. 



