OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 107 



128 to 170, among the trees clothing the banks of the Nile beyond Lat. 14° 30' and Abu Haras ; by 

 Bruce, and Salt, abounding on the Taranta mountains in Abyssinia ; and the "sukaminon aiguption" 

 is enumerated by Artemidorus, among other trees growing South of the entrance to the Red Sea 

 (Strab. xvi. 4. 14). Eastward, F. sycomorus was observed by Forskal wild on the mountains of Ye- 

 men : and dried sycamore figs "from the Persian Gulf" were once shown me. 



The name of king Aahmas occurs in the alabaster quarries at El Bosra, opposite Siut (Leps. eg. 

 and sin. 32 and 115J. 



1593 B. C. = " 22d year of Aahmas," in the quarries at Massara, the date of opening these 

 quarries, to repair temples at Memphis. 



1592 B. C. (= 14x7 -)- " 37 _|_ 31 _|_ 9 _|_ 26 -f 13 + 22 -f 24 -j- 13 years " of the 

 Afr.-Maneth. table = " 38 -f 31 -f 9 -f 26 -f 12 -j- 21 -f- 13 -4- 25 years " of the Eu- 

 seb.-Maneth. table), accession of the second king of the Seventeenth dynasty. The 

 name of king Amunhotep is next on the monuments; both contemporaneous, — and 

 in the tablet at Abydos, and the series of kings at Gurna. 



Amunhotep built a portion of the temple at Karnak (De Rouge") ; and (according to Champol- 

 lion-Figeac) foreign wars are recorded on some of his constructions : 



1590 B. C. (= 1640 — " 50 years " of Castor in Euseb. i. p. 129 to 131, see also Apollod. ii. 1, 

 and Pausan. ii. 5 to 8), Inachus succeeded by Phoroneus, second king in the Peloponnesus. He 

 collected the scattered inhabitants into a town, named after him Phoronikon (Pausan. ii. 15. 5). 



His brother Aegialeus collected the inhabitants of a neighboring district on the Isthmus into a 

 town, named after him Aegialea, and became the first king of Sicyon (Apollod. ii. 1. 1, and Paus. 

 ii. 5. 5). 



The Arcadians living on the leaves of trees and roots of herbs before — the time of Pelasgus, ac- 

 cording to tradition (Ruel i. 115). 



Apargia tuberosa of the Mediterranean countries. Called in Greece "rathiki" or "agriorathi- 

 kon" (Sibth.) ; and perhaps included among the roots of herbs eaten by the Arcadians: — the 

 "kihoriS agrio," edible according to Theophrastus ix. 12. 4, may also be compared: A. tuberosa, sent 

 by Busbecke from Constantinople, is termed " cichorium constantinopolitanum " by Matthioli comm. 

 pi. 388 ; was observed by Sibthorp, and Chaubard, frequent in meads more or less sandy from the 

 Peloponnesus to Cyprus. Westward, is described by Lobel pi. 232; is termed "dens leonis aspho- 

 cleli bulbillis " by Tournefort inst. 468 ; is known to grow in Italy and Southern France (Pers.), and 

 was observed by Brotero as far as Portugal (Spreng., and Steud.). 



1589 B. C. (= 1587 y. 239H d. -j- " 100 — 99 years " of Gen. xvii. r and xxi. 5), the Promise to 

 Abraham. Establishment of the rite of circumcision. And destruction of the two cities of Sodom 

 and Gomorrah. 



According to the Septuagint and English Versions " vouturon " or butter is mentioned in Gen. 

 xviii. 8. — The art of making butter (according to Oppian cyneg. iv. 271) was brought from the 

 Issedones or other Northern nations by Aristaeas ; according to the Hippocratic writer morb. iv. p. 

 357, was derived from the Scythians, and their process of making butter from mare's milk is dis- 

 tinctly described : butter used among the mountaineers of Portugal is mentioned by Strabo iii. p. 

 414 ; butter from sheep's or goat's milk is prescribed by Dioscorides ; and from cow's milk, by Galen 

 fac. simpl. x. p. 272 (Spreng.). 



The same year (= 1557 -\- "32 years" of Euseb. i and ii. = 1609 — Cephalion's 20 years limit) 

 is given for the accession of Altadas as Assyrian emperor : but suspicion here arises of conformity 

 to a chronological landmark ; as he is called " Sethos " by Syncellus, with "fifty" years assigned to 

 his reign. 



"Towards the close of the Treta Yug"or Silver Age (Puranas, Graha Munjari tables, and 

 Bentley as. res. viii. p. 231), Bharadwaja reigning in Hindustan. 



1588 B. C. (— 1587 y. 239H d - = I2 4° + "43° Y ears " of Ex - xii - 4°. compare also 1413 + 

 '■ 175 years " of Gen. xxv. 7), Isaac born to Abraham and Sarai. 



"Hevr6n" is placed in this year by Manetho (— 1574 y. 10 mo. + " 13 years" of Jos. c. A. i. 

 15) ; the "thirteen years" of HSvrSn or He>r6s occur also in the Maneth. tables, but at different 

 dates, and there is no such king on the Egyptian monuments. Manetho seems therefore to have 

 been acquainted with this date in Jewish history. 



Cordiamyxa of Tropical Arabia and Hindustan. A large tree called in Burmah "tha-nat" 

 (Mason), in Hindustanee " lusora " or " lesoora," in Telinga " nekra," in Bengalee " bohooari " (Lindl.), 

 in the environs of Bombay "bhokur" (Graham), in Tamil "vidi-marum" (Drur.), in Egypt " mokha- 

 yet " (Del.), in Yemen "onneb" or "gharaf " or "sehajli " or "eschell " (Forsk.), in which we recog- 

 nize the "as'hl" planted by Abraham at Beer-sheba— (Gen. xxi. 33), that under which Saul abode 

 at Gibeah, and a third under which he was buried in Jabesh (1 Sam. xxii. 6, and 1 Chron. x. 12) : 

 mummy-cases are said to be made in some instances of wood of C. myxa ; the "mokhaita" is men- 



