FISHING AND FISH-HOOKS, ETC. 329 
tioned ; but the name also conveys the idea of a 
produce of the soil. That the knowledge of this 
compound deity should have spread, as modern ob- 
servation has shown, to the extremity of Eastern Asia, 
will appear the less remarkable when we are told 
that the people of Babylon were also worshippers of 
such a god; and the reason assigned for it is, that he 
—-perhaps in the person of some learned priest of that 
faith—had taught them many valuable truths, of 
which, beyond doubt, something of the art of fishing 
formed a part. This deity of the Babylonians was 
called Odokon; and on the reverse of a coin bearing 
the figure of Dagon is that of a horse. It would be 
strange’ if we could discover that to the earliest nation 
or sovereign of fishermen we have been indebted for 
the first taming of the horse to human dominion. 
J. C. 
