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times, poetical embellishments in the legend, which, since the 

 late discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh, show that the narra- 

 tions are drawn from buildings adorned with Andro-Sphinxes 

 Sirens, and Taurine monsters, similar to those of Persepolis 

 The locality may even be much more towards the north and 

 east, since a sculptured sphinx has been discovered about the 

 Altaic gold mines, and similar objects are frequent in the 

 ruins of ancient cities about the river Amour, in Chinese Tar- 

 tary. The name of Temendoun, a giant with one hundred 

 arms, defeated by Kayomurs, first king of Persia, but who 

 escaped and fled to Oman, in Arabia; one more, named An- 

 thalous (Antaeus), with a thousand arms, who was captured 

 and sentenced to death by Solitnan Ben Hakki, who could 

 never accomplish his decree, indicate that they are rem 

 cences of ancient legends, notwithstanding the evident plagia- 

 risms from Greek fables and Hindoo relations, and that the 

 color, the direction of the flight, and the indestructible charac- 

 ter of these enemies, whose many arms imply the strength of 

 their forces, and the region and antiquity of their occurrence. 

 They are, moreover, countenanced by others, such as the ante- 

 diluvian sovereigns Mahabad, "Father of mankind;" Biurasp, 

 " King before the flood ;" and Gilshah, " The first man ;" 

 all mythical records of the first Caucasian invasions from the 

 high lands, and the wars they waged upon the black popula- 

 tions in possession of the land. If the relation of Herodotus 

 can be admitted, they were in his time not quite extinct in Col- 

 chis. The evidence of their blood remains marked in the 

 present Bedoueen Arabs; it was unquestionable in the race of 

 Ham in Chaldea and Syria ; in the Ethiopia of southern Per- 

 sia, Persis, Chusistan, and Susiana; in Arabia Deserta, from 

 the southern coasts of the Indus to the Straits of Bab-el-Man- 

 deb, and in Upper Egypt to Nubia and Cordofan. 



The Shah Nameh furnishes traces of their wars with the 

 Iranians, and Asiatic Ethiopians are historically noticed in the 

 'ime of Xerxes. The whole region from Hindostan to Lybia, 



