NOTES GEOLOGICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN 



cities, one above the other. Beneath all he found an older 

 settlement containing lude flint implements and pottery. 

 His most important find was a fine Stela of Naram-Sin, son 

 of Sargon, 3,800 B.C. 



FROM MYTHS OF EGYPT 



German Savant sa3's Old Testament was reproduced. 

 Berlin, July 10. — The theological world of Germany is 

 greatl}^ mov^ed by the appearance of "Egypt and the 

 Bible," by Professor of Divinity Volter, who states that 

 the writers of the earlier books of the Old Testament only 

 reproduced Egyptian Sagas and Myths, slightly altering 

 them to suit the tendencies of the Hebrews. 



The history of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Esau, Joseph 

 and Moses, he declares purely Egyptian with exact 

 counterparts in Egyptian Mythology. 



Beginning with Abraham, Volter shows that the story 

 of God visiting Abraham at Manire and the destruction of 

 Sodam and Gomorrah have exact parallels in the Egyptian 

 Sagas. Abraham corresponds to the Sun-God. Nun's 

 wife, Nunet, like Sarah, had her first child in her old 

 age. Both were children of promise through whom the 

 future world should be blest. 



Note well that in the face of this extract and others in 

 my possession, one of the speakers of the League boldly 

 asserts : Egyptian excavations of late fully confirm the 

 truth of the earlier Hebrew writings. 



NOTES 



On comparing this Trilobite tail, obtained from a 

 Trenton limestone in " the Glacial (Ene) clay," Winona, 

 with rather an indifferently preserved tail shield of Chap- 

 man's " Asaphus Canadenses." It appeared to me to 

 bear a nearer resemblance to the Utica Shale Trilobite than 

 to a platycephalus Trenton. Perhaps it might be owing to 

 sight-failure on my part. 



