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tion only, as Mr. Rassam seems to think, but is of repeated 
occurrence. 
Mr. Rassam is supported in his view that Balaam was of 
Aramaic origin by the Assyrian inscriptions from which we learn 
that Pitru or Pethor lay on the western bank of the Euphrates, 
close to its junction with the Sajur. 
THE AUTHOR’S REPLY. 
May, 1892. 
From what I have read of the remarks made by different gentle- 
men upon my paper, it seems to me that there is very little to 
comment upon, but I must reply briefly to three or four points 
mooted by Major Conder, Sir J. W. Dawson, and Professor Sayce. 
First, I beg to remark with reference to Major Conder’s allusion 
to “Uz,” mentioned in Lam, iv, 21, and ‘Teman,” referred to in 
Jer. xlix, 7, that I have already explained in my lecture that it 
was not uncommon in ancient days, nor indeed at the present time, 
to give the same name to cities and districts in different parts of 
a country, as itis the case now in Biblicallands. There is a large 
Arab tribe in the south of Assyria called Tai, and another one 
which bears the same name, and has no connection with it, inhabits 
northern Mesopotamia. } 
Moreover, if we are to follow Major Conder’s theory that ‘‘ Uz” 
and ‘“‘Teman,’ mentioned in the Book of Job, were located in 
Edom, how are we to get over the difficulty of the mention of the 
Sabeans and Chaldeans in connection with Job’s affliction ? 
(Job i, 15 and 17.) 
There is no historical record of those two nationalities as 
having occupied any part of Arabia, whereas, we are told by more 
than one ancient historian that the Chaldeans and Sabeans 
occupied at one time the country bordering on the upper part of 
the Euphrates, in what was known as Aram-Nahraim and 
Cappadocia. 
As to the theory about the situation of the river Gihon where 
the Piramis now flows, I have been led to it by the fact that 
Cappadocia was formerly called ‘‘ Cush,” and the ‘‘ Gihon” had 
encompassed it. (Gen, ii, 13.) 
I am gratified, however, to find that Major Conder agrees with 
me as to the main points in my paper. 
