74 MAJOR C. BR. CONDER, D.C.L., R.F., 
Hittites, I regard that as exceedingly probable. It is a remarkable 
thing, and worthy of some notice, that Semitic populations seem to 
have been more monotheistic in their ideas than the non-Semitic. 
In my opinion (and I have a great many arguments in support of 
this), the Babylonians of the earlier period were, practically, 
monotheists, plurality of deities during the Akkadian period and 
later being due to Akkadian influence. Probably, if we could 
trace this farther westward of Babylonia and Assyria, we might 
come to some conclusion on the subject. 
As to the comparisons which Major Conder has made, I think 
some of the explanations of the Akkadian words are antiquated. 
The word for “Hero,” for instance, is not tas, but wr* [p. 43, 
No. 4]. The word dala, in the note at p. 42, I do not recognise 
P. 45 No. 18, the word wrugal, “hero,’ I do not agree with. 
Urugal means Hades. It may be owing to a misprint; as there is 
another word which means something like hero, and that is ushugal, 
or ushumgal. These are but little discrepancies that I have pointed 
out, and do not affect the whole question. Major Conder’s paper is 
really an excellent one, and I am very glad to have heard it read. 
I hope he will continue his studies, and I have no doubt that, if he 
does so on the same lines, he will arrive at something. 
Rev. F. A. Watxer, D.D., F.L.S.—I only rise for the purpose of 
obtaining information on a particular point referred to by Mr. 
Boscawen. I understood him to say that traces of the ancient Hittites 
were to be found at Marash and between the mountains of Western 
Armenia and the Taurus range ; and I would ask him if he considers 
that the Cappadocians are descendants of the Hittites. The Cappa- 
docians are people who, down to the present day, have always 
preserved their nationality and peculiar dialect ; but, I am sorry to 
add, that they have a very bad reputation for robbery and violence. 
Mr. Boscawen,—No doubt the old province of Cappadocia 
extended much nearer to the Euphrates than that we are familiar 
with in the time of St. Paul; but Major Conder agrees with me, I 
believe (and he has travelled in that district and about the neigh- 
bourhood), that the people there are of a very peculiar, short, 
powerful type, and very much like the soldiers represented on the 
Hittite monuments ; and I think it stands to reason that those people 
should retain traces of the old race. All kinds of invasions that 
have swept across Assyria have come across this region. The old 
* Or, better, wr-sag, rendered in Assyrian by karradu, warrior,” and idlu, 
“hero.” Another word of nearly equivalent meaning is ushwmgal “ the 
great one” (1.¢., “the unique,” “ peerless ”). 
